Just as troubling as the loss of the Go Guide was to those who used it and worked on it is the uncertain future for one of the Net’s grand old search engine franchises,...
How many editors does it take to build an Internet directory? How about 500,000? That’s how many people use online bookmarking service HotLinks. Similar to Backflip, HotLinks allows users to quickly save and categorize their favorite links in an online...
Previous Page There Remain Many Receptive Fish in the Ocean In some ways, the free nature of the search engine placement game obscured the fact that particular site owners’ means of playing the game were...
In a recent article, Why Search Engine Marketing Works, I emphasized that there are two special advantages of search engines from the marketer’s perspective: (i) targeting, and (ii) legitimacy. Let’s stay with these themes, exploring the legitimacy question in particular. Since their inception,...
From the buzz in news releases, in email correspondence, and on popular discussion sites, we’ve learned that one topic seems to inordinately fascinate many people somehow connected to the “Internet industry”: marketing. Take, for example, many of...
Companion This little Java download will make your life a hundred times easier by attaching to your browser and giving you one-click access to your favorite Yahoo services. The killer app of Companion is its excellent integration...
Looksmart, the web directory infrastructure company noted for its staff of 200 professional category editors, has acquired youthful startup Zeal Media in a $20 million transaction. Zeal resembles the Open Directory Project (ODP) in that it uses volunteers to maintain...
Direct Hit bills itself as a “popularity engine.” Search results are ranked according to a formula which supposedly measures how many users click on a certain site for a given search term. For example, the...
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Searching for a Better Way: Part 3 This year, several companies have arrived on the scene promising to improve on traditional keyword searching through “meaning-based” search technology. Their premise is a good one: keyword...