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Does Google SEO success 'suck'?

Rich Skrenta has a love-hate relationship with Google, and the traffic it drives to the company he leads, Topix.Skrenta decried to the Wall Street Journal just weeks ago that as Topix is 45% dependent upon Google for its visitors, moves by the number one search engine can yield “catastrophic” impacts...

Tags: Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Local, Internet Data, Google, Business Models, Amateur Content

Blog posts 2007-04-02

Skrenta vs. King Google, sometimes

Rich Skrenta, co-founder and CEO, Topix.net, has been all over the Google map this first quarter 2007.He began the year by announcing unequivocaly at his blog: “Google has won both the online search and advertising markets,” and exhorting “All Hail the New King Google.“It seems the Google Kingdom is not...

Tags: SEARCH, Rich Skrenta, Google Inc., Googles

Blog posts 2007-03-27

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The 25th Anniversary of the Virus

Writing in Science subscription required, Richard Ford and Eugene Spafford discuss the 25th anniversary of the computer virus.Don Reisinger notes that depending on what you count as a virus, it may actually be the 30th anniversary of the virus. I think it's fair to say that it's the 25th...

Tags: Security

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Hammer out a social network: Only $20,000

Who is Stanley Kirk Burrell? What does he know about social networking?Rich Skrenta to the Burrell--aka MC Hammer--rescue: "The collective response to Michael Arrington including MC Hammer on his TechCrunch 20 review panel is pretty lame, IMO."Skrenta deplores, above all, a lack of common blogosphere courtesy.He is really on the...

Tags: Lets Get, social networking, networking?Rich Skrenta, network

Blog posts 2007-05-13

Google search visitors: Will they stick around?

Does Google SEO success suck’? I asked rhetorically last month, noting Rich Skrentas love-hate relationship with Google, and the traffic it drives to the company he leads, Topix.While Google SEO traffic is theoretically "free," Topix is betting its future, and its sharholders millions, that greater ROI will be had from...

Tags: Google Search, Searchblog, Google Inc., Battelle

Blog posts 2007-05-13

Google CEO gets feisty over Microsoft monopoly

Is Google CEO Eric Schmidt “feisty”?So says Business Week magazine Silicon Valley bureau chief Robert D. Hof.As part of the magazine’s current cover package: “Who’s afraid of Google?,” Hof presents a themed “conversation” with Schmidt, “Is Google too powerful?”Hof on the exchange: “Schmidt was feisty and resolute.”Schmidt was particularly “feisty”...

Tags: Microsoft, Google, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-03-31

Yahoo vs. Google: Should Yahoo surrender?

In “Is Google search vulnerable in 2007?” I underscore: Serious competition necessitates not only "breakthrough" concepts, but serious monetization capabilities and serious proprietary technology, on an in-house basis, not an out-sourced to competitors one. In “Google search kingdom: Benevolent or despotic?” I note the hopes of three companies—Ask.com, Wikiasaria and...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., radio, monetization, advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Google&rsquo, s

Blog posts 2007-01-14

The "friction-free" economy never existed

After Om Malik dismissed my argument against Googles immanence within the Web marketplace with a non-reference to the "friction-free" meme, I figure I should point out that I did not propose that Google will go away. Rather, because the cost of growth and responding to competitors that specialize in niche...

Tags: Googles, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-02

Topix.net adds blogs - is it news?

Today Rich Skrenta, CEO of topix.net, announced they'd added 15,000 of the top weblogs to the Topix.net search engine. These blog posts are now being categorized into Topix's 30,000 local feeds and 300,000 subject feeds. Topix is one of the smartest Internet news services around and so it's great to...

Tags: blog, TOPIX

Blog posts 2005-11-07