Create Your Own Search Marketing Job! The JAR Group gets creative…

July 16, 2009

Today I got an interesting email from a former co-worker with the subject line of  “The JAR Group wants you to create your own *damn* search marketing job!”. Since I have never heard of The JAR Group before I was a bit skeptical about what this really entailed. However, I was easily convinced that this [...]

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The Big 3 Search Engines Need Some SEO Love

July 9, 2009

I randomly searched for the term “Search Engine” in Google this morning and was very surprised at the results. The three big search engines ( Google, Yahoo and Bing) all ranked below the top 3 prime spots -  Google was 4th, Bing was 5th and Yahoo was 7th.  However, I was more shocked to see  [...]

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Is The Future Of Search Real-time?

June 22, 2009

Is there any greater buzz right now when it comes to Search Engines then the promise of real-time search? Over the past couple of weeks I have had numerous conversations revolving around the possibilities brought on by Twitter search and the promise of real-time. But, is it really the future of search? Depends on who [...]

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Do People Really Think Digg Ads Will Succeed?

June 4, 2009

The monetization of any “Web 2.0″ website is a hot topic, regardless of how much traffic and/or buzz they have. At some point you have to make money, not just spend it. Digg, the leader in social bookmarking, announced yesterday their plans to further monetize their traffic by incorporating ads into the main Digg “river” [...]

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Microsoft’s Bing Goes “Live”…Now What?

June 2, 2009

If you visit Bing.com today you will no longer see the a “coming soon” message – yes Bing, the new Google Killer from Microsoft is live and ready to be used. So now what? Well if you play around with Bing long enough you will start to realize that aside from the results being similar [...]

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Microsoft Wants Consumers to Rethink Search? Yeah, Good Luck With That

May 25, 2009

I just read an article on AdAge.com that talks about how Microsoft is going after Google with a new ad campaign and a new search engine called Bing. It seems like every few months there is the next “Google Killer” that promises to revolution search. Remember Cuil? Now the buzz is on Wolfram Alpha. The [...]

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E-Commerce: Religion Verses Revenue

May 18, 2009

In this world of instant, on-demand, online gratification and 24/7/365 shopping very few things surprise me when it comes to e-commerce. In fact, I have basically come to believe that the almighty dollar is the only thing that matters to any, and every, company doing business online. Is this wrong? No, it isn’t – it [...]

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