IBM Web Fountain

ZDnet has a good article about Big Blue's Web Fountain. Using hubs and authorities (what Teoma uses) IBM plans to create a different type of search product.

The Web Fountain project will be used to track answers to questions such as "what do people think about me?" Its goal is to help people project trends and find answers that would otherwise make no sense to other search engines.

Web Fountain also has an interesting model. Instead of people buying hardware, IBM wants people to lease processor power. Now that is an efficient way to run a business!

Search Engine and Movable Type Toys

When there is not much news you must cover the fun toys.

Spider Hacks teaches you how to create your own spider...which I eventually will.

MTGoogleRank shows how many pages link to any page and where any site ranks for a keyword...am going to try this out real quick

Also MTMacros is really cool looking stuff, which I will need to be play with soon.

Increase Your Alexa Rank

Feb 4th

Free tips to help you increase your Alexa Rank for your website.

  1. Download the Alexa toolbar and surf your own site.

  2. Have a few friends download the Alexa Toolbar and surf your site.
  3. Shift the focus of your site toward a more webmaster like theme.
  4. Participate in many webmaster forums which allow you to place your site in your signature.
  5. Write articles about webmaster topics and distribute them around the web.
  6. Optimize pages of your site for Alexa and related phrases.
  7. Buy ads on search engines to increase your traffic. Your Alexa traffic rankings will increase.
  8. Write an article with tips on how to increase your Alexa rankings.
  9. Advertise that article on the world's largest network.
  10. Join an autosurf network which exchanges Alexa credits. <--- this actually exists and they sell off some of the credits. The problem is that those are credits. They are not real visitors. They are not what you need.

    Direct Hit failed as a search engine because it based a large portion of its algorithm on web traffic. Alexa ranking is highly inaccurate and easy to manipulate.

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Google Spreading like a Disease

Feb 4th

Contagious I joined Orkut today :)

Spreading Google opening Swiss research lab

Super Critical Explosion Google Brand of the Year 2 Years in a Row (sidebar: I was a nuclear reactor operator on fast attack submarines. me think that job no fun!)

New Patent ...they must be doing something right, they should put a patent on it!

Becoming an Authority

Feb 4th

Allen Webb (Webby) wrote a great article "Becoming an Authority," which talks about how to rank well in search results after Austin and Florida.

GigaBlast GigaBits

Everyone's favorite underdog, Gigablast recently released GigaBits, which is essentially a "see also" search refinement.

MSN Beta - New Look MSN Search

Feb 4th
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Beta! MSN is using distinctive separation between its regular and paid search results on its MSN Search Beta pages.

In the past MSN search was known to be notoriously sleazy by mixing in many paid search results with normal search results which were completely undistinguisable from one another to the average web surfer.

(found on SEL)

In addition some searches are actually pulling data from the MSNbot and MSN search. This is somewhat similar to how Yahoo! was randomly testing Inktomi. I have yet to see the MSN results, but they spoke with Gary Price of Resource Shelf about it.

Bull Market 2004

Feb 3rd

This has absolutely nothing to do with search engines...feel free to shoot me next time you see me. I will be at SES New York in about a month...bring a gun!!!

I am one of the finalists for Seth Godin's next eBook "Bull Market 2004."

If you like any of my sites and would like to be one of my GLOWING feedbacks, feel free to leave kind words of praise below.

Here is the goal of the Bull Market 2004 eBook "If you are one of the 500 that are picked, I'll include you for free in my new eBook, coming out this May. I expect it will reach about a million people. This is going to be the one and only sourcebook for finding the catalyst an organization needs to create truly great stuff. "

If you hate me that would also be good information as it will help keep me in balance.

If you are a cool creative person then enter your site...don't forget to say I sent you :)

Free Hosting Blocked by Google?

Feb 3rd

Recently there have been stories that Google is blocking free hosted websites. The problem with these claims is that they are exceptionally believable. Many free hosted sites are spam.

Google Guy stated "Looks like some redirects on their site interacted badly with us trying to choose a canonical site between www.angelfire.com and www.angelfire.lycos.com." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/21616.htm

The real cost of free hosting is not one time errors like this, but the more long term marketing effects. It is harder to get people to link to a free hosted site than it is to get links to a paid hosted site. I wrote a small article called "The Cost of Free Hosting."

SEO Book Testimonials

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