July 9, 2009

SEO Strategy for Semantic Search

Posted by Virginia Nussey on 07/09/2009 @ 5:10 pm | Comments (3)
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The advent of blended search in 2007 forced SEOs to rapidly reevaluate their strategies. Blended search, which incorporates video, images, news and other result categories into general Web search results, meant that along with keyword-rich content, engagement objects represented an additional opportunity for SERP real estate.

Another potential game changer, semantic search has been buzzed about for a long time already, … Read more




July 8, 2009

Ask.com, Semantic Search & the SEO Industry – SEM Synergy Extras

Posted by Virginia Nussey on 07/08/2009 @ 4:13 pm | Comments (7)
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What do you look for in a friend? Humor? Compassion? Trust? In some ways Ask.com resembles an old friend. There was good ol’ Jeeves, that funny and warm mascot. Ask’s commitment to providing the best answer the first time embodies the engine’s compassion for users. And Ask’s long tradition of innovative search technology speaks to the engine’s commitment to trust. … Read more




June 26, 2009

Friday Recap: Robo Edition

Posted by Virginia Nussey on 06/26/2009 @ 12:24 pm | Comments (1)
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Welcome to your favorite part of the week — the weekend! Or is your favorite part the Friday Recap? After the week you had, you deserve them both, so let’s get this thing started!
The second Transformers movie was released Wednesday and the harsh reviews are getting almost as much buzz as the movie itself. Susan contends that there weren’t enough … Read more




June 18, 2009

Ask Boasts 300 Million Q&As

Posted by Virginia Nussey on 06/18/2009 @ 1:54 pm | Comments (0)

Congrats, Ask! Yesterday Ask announced that its Q&A database has reached 300 million question-and-answer pairs — tripling in size since the feature first launched in the redesigned engine last October. Thanks to some nifty semantic technology, Ask’s Q&A format comes in handy considering the number of question-like queries the search engine gets.
According to ZDNet’s liveblog coverage of this week’s Semantic … Read more


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