Category — entrepreneur

Finally Jerry Yang steps down. What does this mean for us Search people? I am hopping that whoever steps up to the plate will be able to use Yahoo to fight out the monopolistic practices by Google and give us more options. No MORE Google PPC Blackbox!

Here is a list of top 5 things I would want Yahoo to do to compete with the Google and give search marketers more to work with.

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I am blogging to you straight from the heart of Russia from a little town called Murmansk.

First, yes it is damn cold here, but not as bad as you would think. Second, yes it doesn’t get dark till about midnight in these parts. Moving on to international search…

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I decided to take GoogleSearchSucks in another direction. I realized I can not compete on being first to break online marketing news. I also can’t take away the attention people seem to focus on the Gurus. From now on every post will be either a graph, a cartoon, or a funny image having to do with Online Marketing.

This first graph was my attempt of trying to explain to a buddy how online marketing works.

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Today I noticed something searching for “web conferencing.” The Google has decided to move suggestions of other searches before the organic listings even start. I don’t know if this feature will be rolled out permanently, but it will have dire effects for affiliates and SEOs alike.

Screen Shot Below:

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The common belief is that Google finds new pages and websites by following links from other websites. This would make sense, but recently I have had two incidents which has led me to believe that good finds new pages by tracking users sits visited OR looking for links in google mail.

This is some scary stuff for both consumers and more importantly webmasters. For consumers the privacy concern is definitely something to think about. For webmasters you can have your website indexed before its even ready.
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