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I spoke to Google’s Marissa Mayer at TechCrunch50 on Monday (a little after she we celebrated Google’s 10th birthday with cupcakes) and asked her about the search is “90-95%” solved story over the weekend. She said she’d be posting a clarification on the Google blog. That clarification just went up, here. In the original article, published in the LA Times, Marissa says search is “90 to 95%” solved: Search is an unsolved ...

The information superhighway, more popularly known as the internet, has arrived in a new avatar and sports a look that is more than what can be called just appealing. Websites that are crammed up with textual information and poorly-managed content are now a passé. The internet users of today are more likely to ignore such websites, even before the browser finishes loading the page. We must admit that we have come across websites that have ...

Jessica Guynn has an excellent interview with Google’s Marissa Mayer today about Google’s first ten years (today is arguably Google’s tenth birthday). Good stuff in there - Marissa talks about Google’s accomplishments in search and advertising, and looks forward to a future where cloud computing becomes pervasive. Marissa also says she hopes to still be at the company in another ten years. But one thing caught my eye. Marissa says ...

When I attended South by Southwest 2008, I had the pleasure of attending a panel where four somewhat lost panelists were (with difficulty) trying to come up with metrics to measure success from a social media marketing campaign. I was a little annoyed when they concluded that there were no metrics available right now, and that someone would have to come up with a new way of measuring social media success. While many people argue that the ...

This may seem like old hat to many SEOs, but it's a tip that never fails to get an "oh yeah!" during client meetings. The concept is simple - in any given search engine optmization campaign, you are naturally going to form a list of high-traffic, (perceived) high value keywords that are an idealistic goal for your site to dominate. For a site like SEOmoz, those might be the highly competitive terms like "SEO" or "Search Engine Optimization," ...

A Web design company can utilize some basic Search engine marketing techniques to ensure websites designed by them are found easily on search engines. Some may ague that a web design company’s role primarily involves designing a website and a search engine specialist deals with the marketing side of things. Although Website design and search engine marketing are completely independent fields, there are some simple yet crucial steps a web ...

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is great for attracting the right visitors to your website. However, without keeping new arrivals either entertained, informed or satisfied, it won’t really matter how visitors found you if they have the impulse to click the back button before your content overwhelms their curiosity. It is a simple fact that all traffic is not created equal and it is the synergy between the searcher and the searched that ...