Moderator:Mike Grehan, Global KDM Officer, Acronym MediaSpeakers:Mitch Joel, President, Twist ImageDustin Rideout, Account Director, Digital Strategist, WundermanAndy Renieris, Head of Search, Yahoo! Canada Search
Ostensibly, this session was part of the Advanced Track at SES Toronto, but it unfortunately focused primarily on what blended search is, and why you should be doing it. Given that blended […]

“Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.”- Court transcript, November 2004
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”- USA Today, April 2007
“We will make our products work out of the box.”- Source and date unknown, but does it really matter?
“There will be no media […]

First Microsoft gives Yahoo a deadline of this weekend to begin negotiations or face a hostile tackover, then reveals that maybe they don’t want Yahoo anyways.
This is beginning to look like one of my high school dating relationships.
Suffice it to say that Yahoo beating its projected numbers this week throws a new wrinkle in things. […]

Like a soap opera, things are heating up between Microsoft and Yahoo, complete with threats, machinations, and denials. As things stand right now, I see five possible outcomes.
1) Nothing happens.Very unlikely. Yahoo’s numbers aren’t there right now, and an attempt to stay the course would create considerable unrest amongst Yahoo shareholders.
2) Microsoft purchases Yahoo in […]

Much has been made about yesterday’s forecast of the SEM Industry. Long story short: things are pretty good, or in the words of Larry David: “Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.” According to Radar Research and SEMPO the SEM industry was projected to grow to an $11.6 billion industry in 2007, […]

The Paid Search world was in a tizzy last week over the announcement of Google’s beta testing for its new Automatic Matching (AM) feature for AdWords. Below is Google’s explanation of the tools’ functions, and just for fun, see if you can guess what two words triggered the uproar.
“Automatic Matching automatically extends your campaign’s reach […]

Continuing the series of keynotes about the future of search, today we’ll be hearing “Generating Next: Search in the Coming Decade”. Unlike the previous panels, this is a panel moderated by Chris Sherman and Gord Hotchkiss. Panel members are Brad Goldberg (Microsoft), Larry Heck (Yahoo), and Peter Norvig (Google).
Question: Will search as we know it […]

Just Behave, A Look At Searcher Behavior
Wednesday, February 27, 4:45pm-6:00pm
Moderator: Gord Hotchkiss, President and CEO, Enquiro
Q&A Moderator: Gillian Muessig, President, SEOmoz
Speakers:
Michael Furgeson, Senior User Experience Analyst, Ask.com
Laura Granka, User Experience Research, Google
Ben Hanna, Vice President, Marketing, Business.com
It’s late on Day Two, and live blogging is a young person’s sport, so I don’t expect the amount […]

Another day; another keynote. Yes, that’s a lame opening line, but I have not had enough coffee yet to write a good one.
This morning’s keynote is titled “Past, Present & Future of Search” and is being given by Louis Monier, VP of Products at Cuill (pronounced “cool”). Monier was at AltaVista in the early days.
Monier […]

Another SMX conference has come, and I sit waiting for Danny Sullivan’s open keynote. The lights go down and AC/DC’s “Hells Bells” comes over the speakers. And, then Danny is introduced. Danny opens by telling the story of SMX.
The keynote is titled “Search 3.0, 4.0 & Beyond”.
In Danny’s nomenclature, Search 1.0 was the original content […]