I’m in London today for Live Search’s Executive Symposium, designed to educate key thought leaders, company executives and others about what Microsoft is doing in search and what’s happing in search generally. I’ve twittered the morning sessions, which were interesting and full of stats. Below, the raw twitters. If time allows, I might clean this [...]

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft’s directors are collectively willing to authorize the company to raise its bid for Yahoo to up to $33 per share but perhaps not to the levels that Yahoo has signaled it wants to be acquired.
If such a sweetened bid did occur it would put further pressure on [...]

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I just wrote a ~15 page article aimed at helping SEOs estimate how much a top rank in Google is worth.
I would appreciate any feedback you have on making it better. If you like it please hook me up with a Del.icio.us or Stumble. Any and all mentions are appreciated.
More: continued here [...]

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Posted by Jane Copland
If I had been paying attention on April 15th, instead of swanning around New Zealand, I would have noticed that Facebook had launched what amounts to an elementary keyword research tool… and as I write that, I realise that Facebook Lexicon is perhaps less elementary than some of the tools that we [...]

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WordCamps are my favorite events to go to because there’s something about the core WordPress community that attracts smart folks with good philosophies that are fun to hang out with. In this post I’ve collated the upcoming WordCamps we know about, including the one in San Francisco. Hopefully there will be one nearby so you [...]

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