Author Archives: Francis

Microsoft to buy Yahoo: Redux. Ad Nauseam.

Word on the street is that, in light of their latest loss to Google over Double Click and the new Google Apps (MS Office killer) and a possible Google OS beta to be released soon, Redmond is back in talks with Yahoo about a possible merger; even though the business advantages to this merger appear […]

Weekly Search Marketing News & Links

Have you been feeling down? Sad all the time? Maybe your problem is that you have a bad case of the Supplemental Results.
More on Google’s own plane of hell, trust of pharma distrusters, WoW maps and some Da Vinci code answers in this weeks links:

 A new survey shows that blogs that are critical […]

Search Matters Weekly Search Links 4/25/2007

Blogs, social networks and personalized search are all making headlines this week. All this fancy pants social media and uppity blog talk gets me cranky. I remember a time when you didn’t have to worry about RSS food and XML whatsits and tag storms, or whatever. You just built a static website with a […]

Search Matters Weekly Search Links 4/18/2007

Google Bombing, Wikipedia vandalism and the future of Google search are making the top headlines this week.

Is Stephen Colbert the Greatest Living American? You decide. (SEOmoz)
Now that Google is an advertising giant, will search get abandoned and/or outsourced? (Gord)
Search for regulated industries? Who knew? (Catalyst Blog)
Want to know how far you walked after dinner last […]

Search Matters Weekly Search Links

For those of you who, like me, don’t happen to be at SES, there is actually some search news happening that isn’t in New York city. Which is where all your colleagues are. Laughing. Networking. Maxing out their expense accounts. Completely not sitting back at the office blogging. Good times.

Jupiter study […]

Catalyst is at SES. Behold!

SES 2007 is underway in New York City! The best of the best in Search are there! Two of our top Catalyst people (Catalytes?) are there! Why am I talking in exclamations? No clue.
Heather Frahm, Catalyst’s President and co-founder is speaking on Friday in the vertical track. Her topic is Search for Regulated […]

Search Matters Weekly Search Links

There are a lot of hot search topics going on this week from litigation, to PPA, to Google’s right hand not know what their left hand is doing. Try to keep up.

Google’s Website Optimizer is now out of beta in into …whatever Greek letter comes after beta. Is it cloaking? Is Google so big that […]

The Google is Coming. The Google is Coming.

Like the last invaders from back in ‘75 (Seventeen Seventy Five that is), it seems that Google, a new dreadnought, has its sights on Boston and they’re planning on more than a fortnight’s stay. Amidst not so subtle clues, like job listings for Google and YouTube for the Boston area and search insider gossip, the […]

Can Blogging Drive Traffic to a Pharma Site?

So, what is a Blog?
A blog is nothing more than a web page; but it is a special kind of web page. A typical blog is a website with regularly published “articles” that are displayed “newest first”.� Blogs have certain attributes that distinguish them from standard web pages; namely, ease of web publication and mass […]