Of Local Search, Love Meters, and Raking Leaves

Of Local Search, Love Meters, and Raking Leaves
This week saw a series of events and announcements that indicate more love for local search, despite a continually faltering economy. ...

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Over the past year, I've been in numerous meetings with advertisers, agencies, and online media vendors, and I'm often amazed at the confusion surrounding how local search campaign analytics are reported, and sometimes twisted, to create a desired story. ...

Forget Tibet; Free the Content
In China, search engines are responsible for the content to which they provide links. This means anytime the Chinese government decides that a certain type of content isn't worthy of its people, they can tell search engines not to list them. ...

Tibet's Revenge
There's quite a bit of controversy over things like censoring search results. Judging by the majority of the responses I received on last week's column, most of you got the humor in it. For those who didn't, or only read the headline and first three sentences, please continue on to the punch line at the end. ...