Here are my Top 5 pre-dictions for 2006, in no particular order:
1. It’s litigation, baby! - Like parents shut-ting down a good party, expect the lawyers to come out in full force in 2006. Between privacy concerns, content rights, technology ownership and everything in between, lawyers will be busy throwing around the wet blankets.
2. Acquisition […]

SEO is hard. And it’s getting more and more difficult.
That’s a good thing.
I spoke with an SEO veteran earlier this week. He was really down.
"SEO just isn’t what it used to be," he said. "I remember the days when competition was scarce and a few relatively simple tricks were enough to get you […]

… shape of, Super Search Engine.
Alert the Hall of Justice and the Super Friends, rumors are heating up that Yahoo! and Microsoft are courting each other to create a partnership that would build a Google killer, taking on Google’s prominence in search that was recently solidified by a deal done with AOL.
According to ComputerWord:
Microsoft may […]

Came across the following ad when doing a search for "jobs" on Google. It isn’t widespread for a lot of related searches from what I can tell, but I suspect it’s just a matter of time … I mean, it’s not like Google would have to pay for the advertising.

A lot of people I know in SEO circles have been predicitng a big year for Amazon’s A9 search engine. I’m skeptical, but they’ve made it a little tougher to be so.
Why? Amazon is now rewarding its users with up to 1.57 percent going toward Amazon purchases for using their search over rivals like Google […]

My personal choices for 2005’s ‘best of’ in Internet recruiting:
1. Vertical job search - Simply Hired, Indeed, Jobster and Oodle are hoping to carve their own place in search history and beat Google to the punch. Next trick: Make real money or be acquired; add more corporate content to the index.
2. Google Base - The […]

Well, they’ve done it. Google is testing the bounds of adding images to their highly successful text-only advertising model known as AdWords:

The effect on online recruitment is a bit unclear, but envisioning a future where advertisers can easily add their logos, or other images, to such ads isn’t a stretch.
And if that’s the case, I’d […]