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Danny S posted a tweet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:16:48 -0800

RT @mathewi: Murdoch says prob remove his websites from Google http://bit.ly/2DRAQZ [via @palafo] -- [should be fun to watch]
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:34:13 -0800

How a Search Engine Might Distinguish Between Queries from Bots and from Humans
Hi RG, There is value to having APIs, not only for people interested in the data, but also for the search engines themselves. Yahoo Boss is definitely a good example of how an API can spur innovation, and provide tools that make search better. The...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:28:37 -0800

How a Search Engine Might Distinguish Between Queries from Bots and from Humans
Hi Chris, I've seen CAPTCHA tests after doing a number of manual queries for thins like "allintitle:" searches, but haven't been blocked. I also understand the desire to try to understand why some results are shown where they are, and when and why...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:23:28 -0800

How a Search Engine Might Distinguish Between Queries from Bots and from Humans
Hi Polly, There is a lot of information worth looking at in analytics that can produce some interesting ideas for topics to write about, content to change, and so on. Also, some of the search data that we see just by looking at search results (whether...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:19:27 -0800

How Search Engines May Rank User Generated Content
Hi Frank, It's interesting that this patent filing broke ranking down into multiple components - document goodness, author rank, and location rank. Your questions raise some very interesting questions - how much value should be given to documents...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:09:52 -0800

How Search Engines May Rank User Generated Content
Hi HP, I've seen some very useful User Generated Content in some places - for instance, reviews of books at Amazon have often been helpful to me. I think one of the things this patent filing mentions that is useful to keep in mind is that the process...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:05:54 -0800

How Search Engines May Rank User Generated Content
Hi RG, Microformats are interesting when it comes to User Generated Content. We have heard from some of the search engines that they are interested in exploring how those can be used in places like reviews - Google mentioned that during their...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:02:52 -0800

How Search Engines May Rank User Generated Content
Hi Abhijit, Thank you. I'll have to spend some time with TipTop. It does look interesting.
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:01:00 -0800

How Search Engines May Rank User Generated Content
Hi Dan, Thank you. I thought it was interesting seeing this approach from Yahoo, which does involve a different way of thinking about and ranking user generated content. I do believe that an element of quality will play a role in rankings, rather...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:37:45 -0800

Microsoft Bing, with Powerset Inside
Hi Dave, It doesn't hurt paying attention to what the different search engines are doing, and whether they are delivering visitors to your pages who are interested in what you have to offer. I'm not convinced that spending $100 million on TV ads is...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:32:20 -0800

Duplicate Content Issues and Search Engines
Hi Jeremy, A couple of things to keep in mind regarding a home page is that: 1) Search engines can pretty much deliver a visitor to any page on a site, so I think there's value in providing something important to visitors on any page they might...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:23:44 -0800

Google’s New Review Search Option and Sentiment Analysis
Hi Peter, I do like the review approach - it does give us a different view of pages that we might find on the Web. I'm not completely convinced that the other search engines are standing still, but it is fun looking for the changes, and comparing...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:21:21 -0800

Search Experiment Papers from Google’s Mad Scientists
Hi SJL Web Design, It always pays to keep your eyes open when you search. You never know when you might see something that one of the search engines is doing something different.
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:19:27 -0800

10 SEO Questions
Hi Adrian, I think that sometimes people disvalued the importance of using the right words on their yellow page ads in the past, but I do agree with you that there is some confusion moving from the world of telephone directories to online...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:16:25 -0800

Google Trust Rank Patent Granted
Hi Rhys, You're welcome. I think that's a good approach. What else seems to be important here is to be seen as a reputable expert on the topics that you write about, whether you are the author of a post or page or article or annotation.
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Loren Baker posted a blog entry

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:50:45 -0800

10+ Tips For a Pubcon Vegas Newbie
On Tuesday I will be flying out to Las Vegas for my very first Pubcon! Sounds unbelievable right? Mr. Search Engine Journal has...
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Danny S posted a tweet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:35:10 -0800

oddly thinking might have to catch Ben 10 Alien Swarm movie. extended time with boys might be regressing me
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TopRank posted a photo

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:25:51 -0800

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:25:24 -0800

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:24:51 -0800

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Danny S posted a tweet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:19:38 -0800

@DerrickWheeler I did throw it back. very lamely. sports with ball throwing aren't my thing. pretty much most sports I'm lame at :)
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Danny S posted a tweet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:12:45 -0800

getting tired of guy pretending to be me in @techcruch comment. at least twice now. tough to prevent, I know.
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Danny S posted a tweet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:07:09 -0800

guy thru footballl to me while skating & I caught it. can't even do that standing still. maybe I can replace ASU 1/4back Danny Sullivan :)
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DazzlinDonna posted a tweet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:54:16 -0800

@LisaMarieMary I know, it's crazy! I'll probably just delete that whole list of people one day.
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DazzlinDonna posted a tweet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:42:12 -0800

Finally getting around to adding facebook friends to lists. Up to the "M's" now. Lots of people going on the "who the frack is that" list.
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