Why Does Your Search Traffic Suck? The 7 Most Likely Reasons

March 29th, 2008

Posted by randfish

We’re just not getting any visitors from the search engines…

I probably hear that line 30X or more each week - over email, in phone calls, in conversation, on forums, etc. and to tell the truth, it would be really handy to have a resource I could point folks for some self-diagnosis. If only there were some type of medium that I could publish on… one that would be accessible on some sort of computerized system… maybe a net of interconnected pages… one the whole world could access… like a… world… wide… oh, hang on a tick.

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Where are Search Engines Most Likely To Innovate?

September 12th, 2007

Posted by randfish

Since Read/Write Web is covering 10 future web trends today, I though it would be a perfect time to present my own theories on how search engines might be innovating their technologies.

Query Intent Detection
It seems that all of the major engines have eschewed disambiguation in favor of attempting to automatically determine the query intent of a user. My guess is that more robust user data and greater analytical and data mining capacity will result in even more personalization and assumption of intent. Search Term Pattern Analysis
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