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• Will Advertisers EVER Get It?

  If you knew users are searching for you, should you make an effort to help them find you? It just occur to me we’re light years away from mainstream to remotely get internet traffic. I wrote few times in the past about how we think, from generic... Posted Jul 18 2008, 05:25 AM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Business, Domain Names, Search Technology

• It’s The Pageviews, Stupid!

  Via Search Engine Land : Tamar tipped me off to people seeing secondary search boxes in the Google search results. I see them myself now. For example a search on amazon returns this search box directly under the snippet but above the URL, here is a picture... Posted Mar 04 2008, 04:21 PM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Business, Search Technology

• SEOKER: Google hijacking 404 error pages

  Bad news for the internet, real bad. Via SEOKER.Com : This morning I installed the Google Toolbar beta version on one of my computers and my oh my - there is something that can have huge impact to many webmasters. Google grabs the 404 error code returned... Posted Feb 12 2008, 05:33 AM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Business, General, Domain Names, Search Technology

• Today’s Search Is A Paradigm Addiction

  What is a Paradigm Addiction? What occurs when a paradigm and its most ardent supporters are addicted to the paradigm to the point where they lose the realization that they are even in a paradigm at all? Ardent paradigm supporters have equated paradigm... Posted Feb 04 2008, 12:12 PM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Business, Search Technology, Assista

• Traffic Is Today’s Crack Cocaine, You’re A Crackhead, And Google Is Your Server

  ( image source ) So what do I know about Crack Cocaine? Not too much. Until few minutes ago I didn’t know these terms either but quick visit to the “server” and I learned the lingo pretty quickly. So let’s examine this notion a... Posted Feb 01 2008, 06:27 PM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Business, General, Domain Names, Search Technology

• Video Day: Few Domain Related (And One Search Related) From YouTube

  Latest finds on YouTube. Enjoy! The Importance of Domain Names When Selling Insurance Online NewYork.com owner and a friend Leland Hardy of InternetEquality.org on KSTV Should You Get a .mobi Domain for your Blog? Domain Name Research Techniques #450... Posted Jan 27 2008, 12:57 PM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Domain Names, Search Technology

• The More Information Online, The More Important The Skills To Sort Through It

  Found via Paul Kedrosky’s blog . A press release by “ Center for Medicine in the Public Interest ” found that: For millions of Americans, Google has replaced the family physician. People trust, and make decisions, based on the information... Posted Jan 08 2008, 03:26 PM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Search Technology, Assista

• How We Think (Part III)

  This is a follow up post on Part II of “How We Think” series. The question in Part II was: Why do we, as individuals, have different ideas for the same search query? The answer to it as Kamal noted, we’re all individuals. We all have... Posted Jan 07 2008, 10:59 PM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Search Technology, Debates, Assista

• Search Wikia Is Live!

  http://alpha.search.wikia.com/ From first look this is going to be huge. If there is a Google killer out there it is Wikia. Why? Transparency, community expertise, founders experience, buzz, funding. Wikia has it all. More here from the NYTimes . Where... Posted Jan 07 2008, 12:19 AM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Search Technology, Assista

• How We Think (Part II)

  Following Part I , The following are some of the thoughts you left in the comments area in Part I: 1. I have back pain, and I want to know more about it 2. Quick fix to get some relief for my back 3. Common relief for back pain 4. What types there are... Posted Jan 06 2008, 05:29 PM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Domain Names, Search Technology, Assista

• How We Think (Part I)

  I have a question to you: When an individual online uses a traditional search engine such as Yahoo, google, MSN, typing a search phrase such as “Back Pain” into the search box, what is he looking for? I plan to follow the discussion in a Part... Posted Jan 05 2008, 07:14 PM by Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid Filed under: Search Technology, Debates, Assista

• Learning Through Questions With Assista

  How do we learn of a new subject? Imagine you talk to a doctor and he tells you of a new disease you may have, say “Cystic Fibrosis”. Now if you are like most of us then you know very little of it, if anything at all. Without going to your... Posted Jul 15 2007, 04:30 PM by TH·E CON·CEP'TU·AL·IST Filed under: Questioning Skills, Search Technology

• Marchex 100K’s SEO/Content Play

  Once ahead of the pack (set the standards for domain portfolio purchasing), now they are at it again. Marchex is leading the pack with a massive SEO/content play by releasing over 100K sites simultaneously. SearchEngineLand coverage : If you can believe... Posted Jun 27 2007, 10:08 AM by TH·E CON·CEP'TU·AL·IST Filed under: Domain Names, Search Technology

• Xerox Search? Yup

  I long predicted many new players will come into the search market, players who are not in the business today but as they see the money in it, they put resources towards it. This is of course just the beginning and I expect many others to come out of... Posted Jun 25 2007, 02:44 AM by TH·E CON·CEP'TU·AL·IST Filed under: Business, Search Technology

• NLP and Phrasing Questions

  (Image above shows our internal ALPHA NLP search engine in action) The next wave of search engines seems to be evolve around NLP, search engines such as Lexxe , Powerset , and others. If you ever came across these search engines and wanted to come up... Posted Jun 15 2007, 02:18 PM by TH·E CON·CEP'TU·AL·IST Filed under: Questioning Skills, Search Technology