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8 Years Covering The Search Industry

Fetched: December 3rd, 2011, 11:33am CET by Barry Schwartz

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This site has turned 8 years old today. 8 years ago, on December 2, 2003, I started this site to keep track of what I read and learned from around the search industry. It was always, and still is today, focused around the community and learning from within the community. That is still what sets this site apart from the others. This is what makes me proud to keep the site going. Thank you all for reading, participating and making this industry so great.

STATS: This year, we averaged over 500,000 pageviews per month, with about 300,000 unique visitors per month. We posted almost 2,000 stories, 50 video summaries and had over 14,000 real (not spam) comments over the year. Our traffic is almost twice as much as the year before, with page per visits increasing almost 30% and time spent on site up 14% and our bounce rate dropped almost 30%. These are all solid numbers from our redesign on December 1, 2010. A trend I am also seeing is mobile browsing is 5 percentage points, up by 220% year over year. Mobile OS statistics shows me that iOS is 62% of mobile usage, whereas Android is 31%, followed by SymbianOS at 3% and Blackberry at 1.5%. On the browser side, Chrome users jumped by 12 percentage points, Safari increased 2 percentage points, Firefox users dropped 7 percentage points, and IE users dropped 8 percentage points.

YEARLY RECAP: Like I have been doing for the past few years, I wanted to share the top topics and links to the most important stories that I've written here over the past year.

In 2010, it was about the Google May Day update, the Caffeine index, Google Instant results, social and real time search and Yahoo and Bing's migration plan. In 2011 it wasn't all that different.

2011 was about the Google Panda update, a stronger play on freshness in the search results, improved webmaster communication and more. Panda was and still is absolutely the largest topic of concern for Webmasters and SEOs in 2011. The freshness update hit after, but there is less concern about that. Google + was introduced this year and is probably Google's number one priority this and next year - it is everywhere on Google. Social is still important, but Google doesn't have a deal with Facebook or Twitter like Bing does, so their focus is more on Google +.

Also, Google has greatly improved Webmaster Tools, as did Bing, adding tons of more communication notifications. Google was also embarrassed time and time again, some examples include Overstock in the WSJ, JC Penney in the NY Times, Mother's Day link spam in NY Times, and locksmiths Google Maps spam in NY Times.

Yahoo's migration on organic search was completed this year, so they killed off Site Explorer. Google is forcing logged in searchers to SSL, killing off the search query referrer. Apple Siri is a possible new major threat to the search space.

Finally, Schmidt stepped down as CEO, replaced by co-founder Larry Page who has done a pretty good job. Yahoo's CEO meanwhile was fired, while Yahoo seeks some vision for the future.

That just touches on some of the major changes over 2011. Below is a categorized summary by headline of the most important topics I wrote this year. I hope I didn't miss any.

Thank you all so much for reading and making this site something I love to write at every day. Without you - there is no way I would have kept this up for 8 years. Thank you all!

Google Panda:

Google SEO/Webmaster:

Google PageRank:

Google Webmaster Reports:

Bing SEO/Webmaster:

Yahoo SEO/Webmaster:

Google Search:

Google +:

Mobile:

Google Maps:

AdWords:

AdSense:

Microsoft adCenter:

Search Business:

Search Industry:

Conferences:

Logos:

Top Stories By Visits:

We're Now Part Of Search Engine Land's Network Of Web Sites

Fetched: January 3rd, 2011, 6:44pm CET by Barry Schwartz

Tags: Blog Administration

I am proud to announce that Third Door Media the company that owns and manages the Search Engine Land, Sphinn, Search Marketing Now and Search Marketing Expo brands are now in charge of managing the ad sales on this property. The press release below explains most of the details. Here it is:

The publishers of leading search and internet marketing news sites Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Land announce advertising partnership.

Redding, CT and Suffern, New York (PRWEB) January 3, 2011 - Advertising on Search Engine Roundtable will be sold exclusively by Search Engine Land publisher Third Door Media beginning today. Search Engine Roundtable is published by RustyBrick, Inc. "Search Engine Roundtable serves an audience of 200,000 sophisticated internet marketers each month, making it an ideal fit for marketing solutions providers who want to build their brands and acquire new customers," said Chris Elwell, Third Door Media president. "Search Engine Roundtable readers are virtually identical to those of our Search Engine Land and Sphinn.com sites. Combined, the three sites attract nearly 1 million readers per month with purchase authority for a range of internet marketing solutions."

"Having worked with the Third Door Media sales team at Search Engine Land since the publication began, I know how effective they are," said RustyBrick President and Search Engine Roundtable Publisher Barry Schwartz. "They do an outstanding job delivering value for their clients without influencing the editorial process and quality. Working with a team I can trust with my baby was key to this decision. I am extremely excited to have them taking over the commercial aspects of the site, which will let me focus on content and features." Search Engine Roundtable has been published since 2003 and is widely read by internet and search engine marketers. The site currently ranks 13th on Advertising Age's Power 150 ranking of marketing blogs. Here is a profile of Search Engine Roundtable readers:

Experienced: more than 50% have been professional internet marketers for five years or more
Big spenders: 1 in 4 spends more than $1 million annually on search and internet advertising for their companies or clients; 90% buy paid search advertising; 34% buy internet display advertising
Broad purchase influence on a variety of solutions: 75% of readers influence purchase decisions on products and services including analytics (80%), keyword research tools (70%), PPC management solutions (36%) and e-mail distribution solutions (34%)

Interested advertisers can visit [www.seroundtable.com] for available advertising packages and rates, or email Sean Moriarty or call him at (203) 536-4004.

About Third Door Media

Third Door Media's mission is to empower internet and search marketing professionals by providing trusted content and community services they need to be successful. Third Door Media publishes Search Engine Land, the leading search marketing news and analysis site. The company also produces Search Marketing Now, a lead-generation marketing solution for suppliers of SEM-related products and services, and operates Sphinn.com, a social news site that allows search and internet marketers to share news stories, participate in subject-specific discussion forums, and build their professional networks. Third Door Media also produces the Search Marketing Expo Ã'â" SXM conference series. SMX conferences are held around the world and include: SMX West (San Jose, CA), SMX East (New York City), SMX Advanced (Seattle, WA and London, England), SMX Munich, SMX Toronto, SMX Sydney, SMX Melbourne, SMX Paris and SMX Stockholm.

About RustyBrick, Inc.

RustyBrick is a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Since 1994, RustyBrick has been creating Web software for businesses and organizations of all kinds. Using the latest Web technologies, we build the most dynamic and reliable sites on the Web. From advanced e-commerce sites to custom emergency room management software and iPhone apps to Android apps, RustyBrick has the expertise to build out the perfect web-based solution for your company. Their clients include large brands such as MTV, Harper Collins, Jennifer Convertibles, Pitney Bowes and many medium to small-sized businesses. For more information, visit [www.rustybrick.com].

Lucky Seven: Our 7th Year Covering Search

Posted: December 2nd, 2010, 3:00pm CET by Barry Schwartz

Tags: Blog Administration

Can you believe it? Seven years of covering search, search engines, search marketing, Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask on this blog. Never really taking an extended break, never hardly having something new or interesting to share. Who would have known that on December 2nd, 2003, my notebook on search topics would have been a continuous source of search knowledge seven years later?

I often like to summarize the past year's topics I covered below. I do this instead of writing the summary before New Years, like many other sites do.

Come & Gone: Yes, search engines have come and gone. Search forums have come and gone. SEO personalities have come and gone. But search and the importance of search has continued to grow. People, marketers, advertisers, businesses, and families have become dependent on search. Now, seven years later, we have two - Google and Bing. Back when I started, Yahoo wasn't a search engine and now they aren't a search engine again. Alta Vista, who? Blekko the next Google killer or next Cuil? Ask Jeeves, Teoma, Ask.com and now Ask Q&A site. So much has happened over the years, it is hard to summarize it all.

Top Topics of 2010: If I had to highlight the most significant topics I covered in the past year, I would have to say they include:

Google May Day
Google Caffeine
Google Instant
Google Jazz
Yahoo & Bing Migration
Real Time & Social

The Google May Day algorithm, which kicked off in late April but named May Day was the largest algorithm update on 2010. Webmasters and SEOs are still coming to grips with the May Day update. Google Caffeine is often confused with the May Day update, launching sometime around the same time as May Day but being in test mode for around a year. Caffeine was an infrastructure change on how Google crawls web pages and stores that data in their indexes. While May Day has an impact on rankings, Caffeine's intent was not to have a ranking impact. Of course, who would forget the Google Instant launch, which replaced the controversial Jazz interface on some level. Instant shows search results as you type, Jazz (nicknamed) gave additional search filters and a more colorful feel for the Google search results.

No one would argue, 2010 was the year Yahoo Search and Ask.com failed. Yahoo made a deal with Microsoft that closed at the end of 2009 and in 2010, Bing began powered Yahoo's search results and search ads in the US and Canada. Ask.com announced this year they are getting out of the search business and going completely Q&A. Bing has made some nice strides and it is good to see, but I do hate to see only two main players in the search space now. Google and Bing.

Finally, search in the past five years or so has been about links and content. But now it is quickly turning into social and real time. Who you are friends with online, what real time stuff is going on - that is playing a huge role in the ranking algorithms. Google and Bing both are looking at your social graph, your friends preferences and your preferences, either search related or other and using that to rank pages. Real time search has changed the landscape of how fast content gets indexed and what results show at the top of the results.

So 2010 was about Google May Day, Caffeine, Instant, Jazz, Real Time and Social. It will also be known for the failure of Yahoo and Ask in the search space.

New Look & Features: As I mentioned, we have a brand new design and content management system live. We have used Movable Type since we launched this site. But there were many limitations. So seven years later, I decided to launch a new design with a custom brewed content management system. This way I can do whatever I want, feature wise, on this site. The new design helps highlight the top stories, gives you more detailed navigation and browsing through our archives, highlights my weekly video recap, is much faster, has better commenting support, better sharing features and so much more. I'd love your feedback, but leave it over in this blog post.

Top Stories of 2010:

Yes, I highlighted the key topics of 2010. But here are links by category to our most important stories of 2010. I am sure I missed some, but hopefully this is deep enough. Here they are:

Google UI

Bing

Yahoo:

Algorithm & PageRank

SEO & Links

Searching & Indexing

Business

AdSense

AdWords

adCenter/Yahoo PPC

Local

Polls

Industry

Conferences

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Our New Look & Features: v4

Posted: December 1st, 2010, 10:10pm CET by Barry Schwartz

Tags: Blog Administration

I am incredibly proud to announce we have launched our new design and platform today. After almost four years since our last redesign, aka version 3 and almost seven years of being on MovableType, we now have a brand new design and system to power this site.

Dare I say, the nicest looking search related news site on the Internet?

What is new?

Major design update
Magazine-like home page
Much improved commenting system, powered by Disqus
Categories now available at the top of the page
Improved Sharing features
Weekly video featured on right side of all pages
New picture of the day feature
Home grown content management system so I can have full control
Much more...

Please play around with it and let me know what you think in the comments below. There is just too many new things going on to list them all.

I'd like to thank my awesome team at RustyBrick, specifically Mabe for the outstanding design, Mike for the coding and Ronnie for uploading this new site. It was a huge undertaking, years in the making and I am so happy it is live.

We will have tons more coming in the near future, but we had to launch at some point. Remember the old design? Here is a picture:

Compared to the new design:

Please comment below and let me know your thoughts. Also let me know if you find bugs. Thanks!

Programming Note: September 30 & October 1

Posted: September 29th, 2010, 11:05pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

I wanted to give you a heads up that tomorrow, September 30th & October 1st, I won't be providing normal coverage here. I have about several stories and polls scheduled to be posted each day, many with very interesting results that many of you have been waiting to see for a month or more now. So keep an eye out for those polls.

We may have some guests posts or may not. I am personally going offline so I will not be providing normal forum coverage over the next two days. For those of you celebrating the holiday of Sukkots, have a good one!

Subscribe to Us:

If you have not yet subscribed to us via RSS, email, Twitter, Facebook or on YouTube and iTunes, please do. Here is how:

(1) Subscribe via email over here for a nice daily recap.

(2) Subscribe via RSS to our short feed or full feed in your favorite RSS reader.

(3) Watch or Listen to our weekly video recaps on YouTube, iTunes or via RSS or watch live Friday mornings around 9am (EST). (Not this Friday morning)

(4) Follow us on Twitter @seroundtable and also follow me at @rustybrick and Fan/Like us on Facebook.

Yes, again, follow me on Twitter at @rustybrick

Thanks so much for reading and hope you enjoy the polls!

Programming Note: September 23 & 24

Posted: September 22nd, 2010, 11:05pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

I wanted to give you a heads up that tomorrow, September 23rd and 24th, I won't be providing normal coverage here. I have about four stories and polls scheduled to be posted each day, many with very interesting results that many of you have been waiting to see for a month or more now. So keep an eye out for those polls.

We may have some guests posts or may not. I am personally going offline so I will not be providing normal forum coverage over the next two days. For those of you celebrating the holiday of Sukkots, have a good one!

Subscribe to Us:

If you have not yet subscribed to us via RSS, email, Twitter, Facebook or on YouTube and iTunes, please do. Here is how:

(1) Subscribe via email over here for a nice daily recap.

(2) Subscribe via RSS to our short feed or full feed in your favorite RSS reader.

(3) Watch or Listen to our weekly video recaps on YouTube, iTunes or via RSS or watch live Friday mornings around 9am (EST). (Not this Friday morning)

(4) Follow us on Twitter @seroundtable and also follow me at @rustybrick and Fan/Like us on Facebook.

Yes, again, follow me on Twitter at @rustybrick

Thanks so much for reading and hope you enjoy the polls!

Programming Note: September 9 & 10

Posted: September 8th, 2010, 11:05pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

I wanted to give you a heads up that tomorrow, September 9th and 10th, I won't be providing normal coverage here. I have about five poll results scheduled to be posted each day, many with very interesting results that many of you have been waiting to see for a month or more now. So keep an eye out for those polls.

We may have some guests posts or may not. I am personally going offline so I will not be providing normal forum coverage over the next two days. For those of you celebrating the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah - have a healthy, happy and successful New Year!

Subscribe to Us:

If you have not yet subscribed to us via RSS, email, Twitter, Facebook or on YouTube and iTunes, please do. Here is how:

(1) Subscribe via email over here for a nice daily recap.

(2) Subscribe via RSS to our short feed or full feed in your favorite RSS reader.

(3) Watch or Listen to our weekly video recaps on YouTube, iTunes or via RSS or watch live Friday mornings around 9am (EST).

(4) Follow us on Twitter @seroundtable and also follow me at @rustybrick and Fan/Like us on Facebook.

Yes, again, follow me on Twitter at @rustybrick

Thanks so much for reading and hope you enjoy the polls!

Video Game Day Logo : Our Best Yet

Posted: July 8th, 2010, 2:14pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

I normally do not do showcase our themes when the search engines do not have special logos or themes. But today is Video Game Day and we have a theme for you. Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com have no special logo for the day. But we have one of, if not, our best theme ever.

Those of you reading this via RSS or email, make sure to visit the Search Engine Roundtable for the full effect. But here is a small snap shot of our theme.

Anyone know what video game this is? Should be easy...

Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.

Programming Note: May 19th & 20th

Posted: May 18th, 2010, 3:45pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

I wanted to give you a heads up that tomorrow, May 19th and May 20th, I won't be providing normal coverage here. I have five poll results scheduled to be posted each day, many with very interesting results that many of you have been waiting to see for a month or more now. So keep an eye out for those polls.

We may have some guests posts or may not. I am personally going offline so I will not be providing normal forum coverage over the next two days. I will play catch up on Friday.

Subscribe to Us:

If you have not yet subscribed to us via RSS, email, Twitter, Facebook or on YouTube and iTunes, please do. Here is how:

(1) Subscribe via email over here for a nice daily recap.

(2) Subscribe via RSS to our short feed or full feed in your favorite RSS reader.

(3) Watch or Listen to our weekly video recaps on YouTube, iTunes or via RSS or watch live Friday mornings around 9am (EST).

(4) Follow us on Twitter @seroundtable and also follow me at @rustybrick and Fan/Like us on Facebook.

Yes, again, follow me on Twitter at @rustybrick

Thanks so much for reading and hope you enjoy the polls!

Happy 20th Birthday The Simpsons

Posted: December 17th, 2009, 3:27pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

I wanted to wish The Simpsons a very happy 20th birthday. I have been personally watching the show for 20 years, crazy to believe. I am surprised to see none of the search engines doing a logo for the special day.

That won't stop us from posting a special theme. Here it is:

I know this has no search relevancy at all - so I apologize.

Happy 20th Birthday!

Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.

Six Years Covering the Search Marketing Community

Posted: December 2nd, 2009, 2:59pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

Today is the official six-year anniversary of the Search Engine Roundtable. To date, we have written over 10,700 (10,740 to be exact) articles here, and over 1,841 in the past year. But it is not about the quantity of posts, I feel we have always produced unique and useful content, day in and day out here for the past six years. If we couldn't provide unique and helpful content, I doubt I would be keeping this up. And like I always say, the content comes from the community (i.e. the forums), which has always determined what we write about and what I feel is important to highlight to a wider audience.

This article, being my 7,958th article since starting this site (1,754 over past year) will highlight some of what I feel are the most important changes over the course of the year in our industry. If you want to see the same type of post for the 2008 year, see my five year anniversary write up from last year.

I would like to thank all our contributing authors, the volunteer live conference bloggers, our sponsors, the search engines, and of course - you guys - the community. Finally, I would like to thank my wife for putting up with my addiction to search, especially after having our first child.

A quick reminder, if you have not yet subscribed to us via RSS or email, please consider doing so. Also, please consider subscribing to our weekly video recaps and on Twitter at both @seroundtable and @rustybrick.

Enough of that, let's get into the meat of the past year:

Technical Note: Disabled Comments Temporarily

Posted: June 3rd, 2009, 5:34pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

This is a quick technical note that I had to disable comments. I am not sure what is going on, but starting this morning, when comments are added, the post's contents would disappear.

So I have disabled comments for now.

I'll try turning them back on later to see if it was a temporary issue. If that doesn't work, then I might have to switch to WordPress or something custom.

Thank You - Scheduling This Week

Posted: May 18th, 2009, 8:07pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

As many of you know, I had a baby girl on Friday morning. Cutest thing ever and mother and baby are doing great!

What I didn't expect is how little sleep you get during this stage. So, I apologize for the lack of posts here. That being said, I wanted to let you know I am still doing the forum research. I do hope to post a few things each day, but don't expect the volume and detail in each post until I get my feet wet with being a father.

Thank you so much for all the kind words left here and on my personal blog. The hundreds of good wishes on Twitter and all the emails, calls, IMs (yes, I was on my computer much of Friday, hospital had great wifi) and from the Search Engine Land Team and Cre8asite Team.

In classic SERoundtable tradition...

Forum discussion at Sphinn and Cre8asite Forums.

Taking Day Off - I Had a Girl

Posted: May 15th, 2009, 12:59pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

I am taking the day off today. I just had a baby girl. Feel free to comment on my personal blog.

I added a theme:

I'll take off Monday also. Didn't realize there is little to no sleeping. :)

Search Engine Roundtable Is Five Years Old - December 2nd

Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 8:30pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

I totally forgot to write a special article for this site's fifth birthday, which took place on December 2, 2008. We have been writing here for five years! We have written over 9,000 articles, and over 2,300 just this year alone. That makes for over 8 articles per work day this past year and just about seven articles per work day over the course of these past five years. I could not have done it with out our contributors and a special thank you to Tamar Weinberg. This article will be my 6,270th piece at the Search Engine Roundtable - hard to believe. But it is not all about the numbers.

This year we were voted the top SEO blog and also the top conference coverage in the industry. A huge honor, which means a ton to me. I also started doing a weekly SEO video podcast, which I am pretty committed to and gets a nice number of subscribers. Yes, that also takes a lot of time, but I am enjoying it right now - so I will keep it up. Oh and I experienced waiting in line for the iPhone, the night before it went on sale - something I likely would not have done, if I wasn't blogging for five years.

I thought instead of sharing the most visited articles written here over the past year, I thought I go through each post and pull out the most important ones, at least to me. Below, you will find these posts grouped as logically as possible. For me, it helped me look back at the year in search and see what really happened and how significant each change was.

So continue reading below by clicking through:

Please Take Our Reader Survey: Win Schwag & Dinner With Me

Posted: May 5th, 2008, 9:35pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

I have created a 15 question reader survey that I hope you can all take. The purpose of the survey is to learn more about you and what you like best about the site. I basically want to learn your likes and dislikes about the content, design and features of this site.

As you know, we have been writing here since 2003 and we continue to try to add components that add value. In addition, we try to focus on search community news and discussion. So even though some news might be hot in the search industry, it might not be important to the average SEO. We try to focus on what is important to the average SEM based on what is being discussed in the forums. We will stay true to that mission but that doesn't mean we can't do better.

I am really hoping most of you can spend the time to fill out the 15 question survey. You can access it at this link.

If you need a reason to take it outside of helping us make a better resource for you, then here you go. If you fill out your name and email address, which is optional on the survey, I will randomly choose one winner. What does the winner win? The winner will win free schwag from Google, Yahoo, Live Search and other companies. Plus the winner will win a free dinner with me and maybe a few of my SEM friends (if they are available) at a kosher restaurant. The dinner has to be at a kosher place, but the winner can coordinate with me the date and time. FYI, the prize ideas came from suggestions at my personal blog.

Again, please take the time to complete our first ever reader survey by clicking here and answering the questions.

Subscribe To Our New Video Podcast: Hosted By Barry Schwartz

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 1:01am CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Blog Administration

Over the past several weeks, I have been experimenting with producing weekly video recaps. You can view those recaps in the Search Buzz Roundup category.

The main issue was that many folks were not able to sit and watch the 10 minute or less video while at their computers. They asked if I can make a podcast version that they can download and listen/watch later on their computers, iPod or iPhone. So after a week or so of work, I have finalized that set up.

Today, I published a new RSS feed exclusively for the video recaps. You can find that feed over here. Now, if you are an iTunes user, you can subscribe with the single click of a button by clicking here.

Keep in mind, these are videos and can take a long time to download. So let it go in the background - I will look to compressing the videos even more. Of course, I will keep the YouTube version going as well, so if you like YouTube, stick with that and subscribe to the standard feed but if you use iTunes/iPod or an iPhone, the iTunes subscribe link is probably best. I have archived these details at the subscribe page.

FYI - I promise to keep trying to improve these videos as I go. And you can win prizes by watching!

So please subscribe and let me know your thoughts by commenting below.

We Changed Our Name: We Are Now The Search Engine 'Squaretable'

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 2:07pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Administration Blog

If you haven't noticed yet, today we put up our new design. The design is based on more of a 'tabloid' type of theme. Yes, we decided to change our focus and become a more 'edgy news' type of publication. We wanted to stop boring you with all the latest minor SEO tips, AdSense changes and Google news items. We will not bring you the hot and edgy news from our industry.

We have thus decided to change your design, as you can see, but also our name. Our name now has more 'edge' to it, we are now the Search Engine Squaretable. With this new name and design, you can expect some hot, edgy news from us. Here are our top stories for April 1st:

Microsoft Buys Yahoo So Google Buys Microsoft in Hostile Takeover
Of all days, on April 1st, Microsoft finally acquired Yahoo. All the silence we have been hearing was confidential discussions between Yahoo's executive team and Microsoft's executive. It really didn't even take that long, but most of us expected that Microsoft would own Yahoo in the long run. At this point, Microsoft tells us that they will leave Yahoo as a standalone property. They did not yet decide if they will consolidate their efforts on
Berkowitz Replaced By Lanzone at Microsoft
The search world was in for a surprise this morning when it was formally announced the Jim Lanzone will replace Steve Berkowitz as Senior Vice President of Microsoft Online Services which includes the Live.com search engine. Berkowitz had previously announced that he would be stepping down in August of 2008, but last week he indicated he would be leaving earlier for personal reasons and would announce a successor. Berkowitz quickly announced Jim Lanzone as his
Danny Sullivan Starts Four Door Media
We've received reports that Danny Sullivan and his friends (Chris Elwell, Chris Sherman, Claire Schoen, Sean Moriarty, Michelle Robbins, and Karen DeWeese) have launched Four Door Media. What's behind door number four? The team has decided to take a direction away from search. Four Door Media is all about Apple and Mac evangelism. Last month, Danny finally caved and bought a Mac. Only a few days later, he was raving about Mac and Windows on
Matt Cutts Transfers to Performics - Will Assume Lead SEO Role
In a move that comes as a surprise to many, Google has decided to reinforce Performics, a company that came with the Doubleclick Acquisition, by transferring long time search quality lead Matt Cutts into a role with the search engine optimization firm. This immediately strengthens the perceived value of working with Performics, since Matt is obviously very familiar with the Google algorithm, and has had insight into the Yahoo system during his brief stint with

Please let us know your thoughts! It has been a crazy day.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Squaretable Forums.

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