Archive for September, 2007
Google universal search eye tracking study
Gord Hotchkiss has just published Enquiro’s recent eye tracking study on Google Universal at Search engine lands.
There seem to be a fundamental shift in scanning when an image is introduced into the results. While the first reaction is to head to the top left corner of the results, seeing the image, people are moving […]
The New York Times ends the subscription content model
Following a two year trial of their TimesSelect subscription programme, The New York Times has finally announced that they will stop it in favour of advertising revenue.
The programme was making just $10M a year, compared what they could make, if they were to allow search engines to crawl this content, acquire links and generate […]
Google adds Feed stats to Webmaster console
I was pleased to read that Google’s webmaster central console was going to start showing feed subscription stats. So, I logged on to check it out. Well, stats may be a slight exaggeration. It’s more of a ‘stat’.
The good news is your Google webmaster central console now shows the number of subscribers aggregating your RSS […]
Google Universal at SES San Jose 2007
As this was the first major search event following the launch of Google Universal, no surprises about which topic would really dominate this year’s conference. Let’s say I didn’t see any spare seats in any of the sessions on Universal, 3D, Blended or any of the other terms devised to describe the new search […]
SES San Jose 2007 - Evil link buying
The session on paid links was probably the most heated discussion this year. Rather reminiscent of the click fraud debate last year. Unfortunately for Google’s Matt Cutts the odds were stacked against him, being the only search engine representative on the panel. A real shame that all the other engines stayed out of this […]
