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Mike-Levin.com
Joined: Sep 27, 2000
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Posted: 2004-Mar-05 19:53
I'm fresh back from SES, and I've learned a lot. There were four simultaneous session tracks, so there was no way for one person to attend everything. It was my first SES, and it was in New York. As I am a Philadelphian, this turned out well. I met Danny Sullivan. I took so many notes, I could post for days and not get through it all. It does, at least, give me excellent material to work with for awhile. The big news of the show was, of course, the big changes at Yahoo. The Inktomi paid inclusion program is going away, and a new paid inclusion program called Site Match managed by Overture is being introduced. It sounds like it works much like the Inktomi paid inclusion system worked, but now you pay either $.15 or $.30 a click based on your industry on your "natural" search results. Bottom line, if the Inktomi spider already visits all your important pages, don't use this service. But if you're having a difficult time getting your pages visited by Slurp, and have never appeared in the index, and absolutely must, than you should consider using it. Yahoo still has its two other paid services, the pay-for-click advertising run by Overture, and the old familiar Yahoo human-edited directory listing. When to use which, and why is the question. The unique AltaVista and Fast/AllTheWeb databases will eventually be going away, even though the sites will continue to exist as search destination sites. So, I'm guessing it's eventually bye bye Scooter.
But there were plenty of other companies represented. AskJeeves/Teoma pretty much shadowed the Yahoo and Google representatives and made a pretty good showing. To hear Ask representatives talk, and to see their search technology demonstrated, is to understand that they really are a serious third major search destination. There were Microsoft employees among the attendees, but little official Microsoft presence to talk about MSN.
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scannist
Joined: Oct 20, 2003
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Posted: 2004-Mar-05 21:23
Thanks Mike! Would love to hear more if you get time.
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bhartzer
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Joined: Jun 08, 2000
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Posted: 2004-Mar-05 21:29
Thanks for the update, Mike-Levin.com.
What I really want to hear is what sort of goodies did they give out this time?
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