One of the most popular vertical search features on the web is image search index. What’s really remarkable, however, is how little has changed in the core technology approach to the indexing of multimedia over the last decade. When I was the head of product at FAST back in 1999, we launched [...]

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Sigh. Reading Stephen Ballmer’s latest "rally the troops" memo overyet another Microsoft reorganization, I just want to scream at the man and the company in general that they’ll never win at search if they don’t get it through their heads [...]

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I’m in the process of finalizing the agenda for our SMX London conference, which will be posted in early August. If you’ve got a unique, compelling idea for a session you think we should consider for the conference, I’d like to hear about it. And don’t delay—tomorrow is the last day we’ll be accepting session [...]

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Posted by randfish
SEOmoz member, Michael Janik wrote to me last week and asked about how to optimize for multiple word order search phrases. I think it’s an excellent topic, and one that we haven’t covered well in the past.
The issue arises from keyword phrases that receive search queries in different formats, for example:

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I was going to wait until part 2 was posted, but I’ll point people to part 1 now. The video from the SMX Advanced keynote is now live, so you can watch the first 25 minutes of questions and answers. Read the intro here, or just watch the video:And Juliane Stiller from Google’s German Webmaster [...]

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