January 2006 Archives : Bruce Clay Blog
January 25, 2006What In The Monopoly is Going On Here?
Guest Entry by Dana McGraw, Web Analytics Analyst–Bruce Clay, Inc. Google announced today that they will be offering a fee-based analytics tool for those who need more than the free Google Analytics has to offer. Google will be teaming with Zaaz to offer a more comprehensive means of marketing and data analysis. It will be [...]
January 24, 2006
Spelling Counts
What do Matt Cutts and Rob Malda have in common? Aside from both having extremely popular blogs (MattCutts.com and Slashdot.org, respectively), both have used recent posts to look at the importance of grammar and spelling on websites. Malda (Slashdot’s CmdrTaco), in an entry discussing how the editors decide which stories are going to be posted [...]
January 19, 2006
Google says no to the US Gov.
This is going to be important. According to Mercury News (and any number of other sources, including John Battelle, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Andy Beal and Search Engine Watch) Google was subpoenaed by the Federal government to turn over one million random searches and accompanying data sampled from all Google searches for one week. The [...]
January 16, 2006
Gone in the blink of an eye.
There’s a new study out there about how quickly people judge your webpage and the news isn’t good. We’d like to think that people take their time, wait for all the goodies to go by and really notice How We’re Different but the truth is that in just 50 milliseconds, a decision has been made. [...]
January 6, 2006
Google presents: An Alternate Revenue Stream
Larry Page’s keynote at CES brought the expected Google Pack announcement (including 6 months of Norton Antivirus, hmm, that might even be worth it) as well as the much rumored Google Video announcement. Google Pack is free for download and comes with an auto-updater so that it will be easy to maintain. Google Video Store [...]
Round the blogs in 30 seconds
It’s Feedback Friday on Matt Cutts’s blog. He’s started several posts soliciting information on how people think Google should conduct itself in the next six months. John Battelle is discussing why he thinks that Google buying Monster would be a terrible idea. Basically he thinks that it mimics too much Yahoo’s purchase of HotJobs. Everyone [...]
January 5, 2006
Give a man a power outage
Matt Cutts was in rare form yesterday, knocking out articles on URL canonicalization, Interpreting inurl:, 302 redirects and the Big Daddy DC update. If you haven’t made it over there yet to read them all, make time to do so. That trend has continued today, with more on Big Daddy (as his entry says, the [...]
January 4, 2006
Google gets ADA support
To celebrate the birthday of Louis Braille, Google has embraced the non-sighted with their holiday logo: a representation of Google’s name in Braille dots. Unfortunately, my monitor must not support the program they used because I can’t feel a thing when I touch the screen. Google is probably working on that. The logo links to [...]
January 3, 2006
Happy New Year
And welcome back. We hope you had a very good holiday season. Things are getting exciting here and wow, are things exciting in search right now and they’re just going to get more so. Be sure to check out the preceding entry by Bruce Clay. He’s looking into the future through the lens of experience [...]
The Year in Preview
I am certain that 2006 will behave in a traditional manner, and be unlike any year before it. We have had growth and consolidation, and a great many surprises along the way, and there is no reason to expect that 2006 will be any different. In the year to come, many patents that were filed [...]
