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Eric Interviews Microsoft’s Mikko Ollila
When I had the chance to interview Mikko Ollila, senior product manager for Local Search at Bing, I was excited. Bing has done some nice things with their local search experience, and I wanted to learn a bit more about it. Our discussion quickly shifted into a review of how Silverlight enables immersive experiences. The […]
Mikko Ollila Interviewed by Eric Enge
Mikko Ollila is a senior product manager working on Bing Local. He is responsible for defining the value proposition and driving the business strategy for Local Search. Ollila first started working at Microsoft Corp. in 2006 with Microsoft Dynamics as a product manager overseeing supply chain ERP offerings. He joined Bing in 2007, where he […]
Shashi Seth, SVP Yahoo Search, Interviewed by Eric Enge
Shashi is the senior vice president of Search products at Yahoo!, responsible for leading the company’s efforts to invent a next-generation search experience. Shashi has deep expertise in the Internet and Search industries, having held leadership positions at Google, eBay, and AOL. Prior to his role with Yahoo!, he was the senior vice president of […]
Shashi Seth Discusses the Future of Search
Today I have the privilege of posting an interview with Shashi Seth, the Senior VP of Search Products for Yahoo! It was a fun interview for me because the very first interview I ever did was with Shashi back on October 24, 2006. He was at Google at the time, and they had just launched […]
Briefing by Majestic SEO
My latest briefing of companies in the link building tools business was with Dixon Jones of Majestic SEO. In the near future, I will publish a briefing about Wordtracker Link Builder. One of the things that distinguish Majestic SEO is that they have a huge data set – more than 1 Trillion links are cataloged […]
New Data on the Value of SEO
Presumably, anyone who reads this blog really does not need to be convinced of the value of SEO, but chances are that all of you have run into situations where you are trying to explain to someone else of the value of SEO. This is often a very challenging activity. New data from a survey […]
SEOmoz Linkscape Team Interviewed by Eric Enge
Rand Fishkin is the CEO & Co-Founder of SEOmoz, a leader in the field of search engine optimization tools, resources & community. In 2009, he co-authored the Art of SEO from O’Reilly Media and was named among the 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30 by BusinessWeek. Rand has been written about it in The Seattle Times, Newsweek […]
The Value of Linkscape Defined
This briefing by the SEOmoz Linkscape team is the first in a series of such briefings. In the near future, you will see similar briefings of Majestic SEO and Wordtracker In the SEOmoz briefing, we get a pretty good look at some of the things that make this tool so valuable. Number one for me […]
Dixon Jones Interviewed by Eric Enge
Dixon Jones is the Marketing Director of Majestic12 LTD, owners of a web-based technology used by the world’s leading SEOs to analyze how webpages on the internet connect between domains. It is the largest database of its kind that can be analyzed publicly in this way, with well over a trillion backlinks indexed. Dixon Jones […]
Briefing by Localeze
Recently I received a briefing from Jeff Beard and David Dague of Localeze. In this briefing, I learned about how Localeze is focusing on Business Listings Identity Management. The basic idea is to enable businesses to have much more control over how data about how their business is listed online. It’s an interesting concept, and […]
Google’s Carter Maslan on Local Search
Today I am publishing the transcript of my recent interview with Carter Maslan. This post summarizes some of the main points of the discussion. We spoke quite a bit about the new service area business tool from Google. Some of the major points made by Carter about this were: Many businesses don’t want to have […]