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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

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Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues: The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Microsoft's Web Search kickback program has a Windows precedent: Over on his SearchBlog site, John Battelle shares the details of a Microsoft incentive program known as "Microsoft Service Credits for Web Search." The program provides kickbacks to businesses who agree to use Microsofts Live Search services. The more users a company agrees to "influence," the bigger the payout from...; Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Market Development Agreement, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 95, Internet search, OEM; Blog posts 2007-03-16
Web 2.0 and The Machine in a nutshell: Worth watching: Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, has posted a captivating and incisive 4-minute and 31-second video explaining the basic premise of Web 2.0, concluding that Web 2.0 is primarily about linking people. But it is the journey of this video that is...; Tags: General, Web, Web 2.0, Web Technology; Blog posts 2007-02-07
Google advertiser on CEO Schmidt: 'comment is pretty scary': Sometimes, blog comments really do get to the heart of the matter.Re: Challenge to Google's Eric and Shuman: Be real men, don't selectively hide the 'world's information' At John Battelle's Searchblog Erik has commented on Eric Schmidt:Schmidt's comment is pretty scary because it shows he does not understand the dynamics...; Tags: perpetrator, Google Inc., click fraud; Blog posts 2006-07-14

Google visitor growth outpaced by Wikipedia, MySpace: Internet traffic reports measuring the top U.S. Internet properties by unique visitors show triple digit growth for Wikipedia Sites and Myspace.com, year over year, while Google visitor growth year over year was 28%.John Battelle's Searchblog points to research prepared by ComScore Networks and FactSet, and presented by PiperJaffray:May 05-May 06...; Tags: Sites; Blog posts 2006-07-10
Blogosphere: gender oppression, or gender choice?: “Blogosphere: Why is this supposedly democratic medium recreating real-world inequality?”, asked Jessica Guynn yesterday in the Contra Costa Times:not all blogs are created equal. A blogarchy has emerged from the Internet equivalent of an "American Idol" popularity contest. This elite clique of bloggers -- the so-called A-listers who get checked...; Tags: women, blog, blogosphere; Blog posts 2006-05-22
Is AT&T-SBC tiff with SF newspaper really about fear of Google?: Even though I think Internet entrepreneur and savant John Battelle has way, way overhyped a Web 2.0 that doesn't exist as an embodied, sensient force, I have a tendency to regard his observations and reportage with the utmost credibility.That's why my head turned when I read John's latest Searchblog...; Tags: Google Inc., SBC; Blog posts 2006-02-07
Week in review: Google, the defiant one: Week in review: Google, the defiant oneshame on the other engineshttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002750632_google20.htmlOne leading search expert, who wrote "The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture," praised Google's stance on the issue. "It's not just about this one request," John Battelle wrote in his...; Tags: Government, SECURITY, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-01-20
Alexa turning its Internet index inside out: Via John Battelle's Searchblog, Amazon's Alexa Web search engine is offering its index and a set of Web services--such as search, category browsing and metadata crawling--for building custom search solutions. According to Alexa's site, the index has 4.5 billion pages from over 16 million Web sites. A correction: The new...; Tags: Alexa Internet Inc.; Blog posts 2005-12-12
Search engines turning into applications: During the SDForum search SIG last night on Microsoft's Mountain View campus, I had a fireside chat with John Battelle of searchblog and author of The Search, covering the early days of Internet search and the rise of Google. I first met John when I came to Macweek in 1988....; Tags: Google Inc., Gautam Godhwani; Blog posts 2005-11-11