in a short message, Gary Jones of Monster Hosting announced that Richard Eriksson (of Movable Blog) has won The Canadian SEO Championship. Let the whining begin!
NYTimes and Google
in Wired News today: Searching for The New York Times. “How can the mighty New York Times, which considers itself America’s paper of record, be the paper of record in cyberspace when its articles barely show up on Google?” Or any other search engine, for that matter.
Anil Dash
wonders what will happen when a regular blogger competes with SEO types in a contest to see who rises to the top in a Google search for the previously unlinked phrase, “Nigritude Ultramarine.” I’m curious about the results myself.
Next from Google?
An article by John Markoff in the NY Times suggests that Google is about to introduce a They suggest that “Search inside the book” results are presented under the “Books” tab on the standard results page, but I tried it and it didn’t work. That’s a pretty tough test so I tried again with a more precise search and it got the book right but not the page that my name appears on.New
