I’m heading to Maker Faire today. It’s a fun event if you like robots, crafts, art cars, flame throwers, Coke ‘n’ Mentos shows, building your own electronics kits, knitting weird hats, Lego creations, plush monsters, power tool racing, or walking around outdoors in the California sunshine. Highly recommended if you’re in the Bay Area today.
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Maker Faire!
At our SMX Social Media
Marketing conference this week, we had a great panel on the future of human
powered search. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo,
Jimmy Wales of Wikia Search,
and Steven Marder of Eurekster all took
part. Jason had some remarks on SEO that set off the
usual wave of upset.
But as I commented to those who weren’t at the panel, by the end of Q&A, Jason
– along with Jimmy Wales and Seven Marder — were agreeing about the usefulness
of SEO. It’s all down to the definitions.
Below you can hear Jason’s presentation yourself, then you can hear the Q&A
portion that covered search marketing and human powered search. Note that the
video production could be better. Hey,
I just got a Macbook — it’s
my first time playing with what it can supposedly do. Do don’t hassle me over
the titles that could be better. Also, I will get the entire session up with the
presentations from Jimmy and Steven, along with the further Q&A. But first,
Jason:
Read the rest here:
SMX Social: Just What Did Calacanis Say About SEO & More Recaps
Google is being sued by a man represented by a law firm that has successfully sued Google several times in the past. The firm is Kabateck Brown Kellner and the man is David Almeida, a local businessman from Massachusetts who claims that Google’s sign up process for AdWords wrongly conceals that advertiser text ads will run on AdSense content partner sites unless they affirmatively opt out.
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Google Sued For Undesired AdSense Inclusion
The Midwest of the US was rocked by an unusual 5.2 earthquake. Looking at
Google Trends, which shows popular
recent queries, I can see people immediately hit the search engines with queries
like
illinois earthquake,
chicago earthquake, and
midwest earthquake. So how did the search engines do? Especially when search
engines are supposed to be providing better direct answers for queries like
this? Not particularly well. Google alone came through with news results on a
general search. All four did better with specific searches.
Excerpt from:
The Midwest Earthquake & Search Engine Responses
Google’s AdSense for Search Service, will be studied by Yahoo! global Internet company, in a limited U.S. test to deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo!’s own search results.
See more here:
Google AdSense for Search, to be Studied by Yahoo!