He-llo Ms. Dewey! Search Gets the Sexy Makeover

An interesting take on getting people to use search, Ms. Dewey offers the first life-like version of the know-it-all oracles we see all the time in sci-fi movies. She’s kinda cute (and kinda annoying at the same time, kinda like all, ahem, …search engines). It can be slow at times so only try “using” her if you have a fast connection. It’s interesting to see how she can actually react to certain search queries while others she obviously can’t decipher. Scary and sexy at the same time, keep you eyes open for other ideas such as this to surface in the search world.

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SEO for Politicians

From Andy Beal: Reuters has a very VERY interesting article about statements made by Eric Schmit of Google about a future application that would determine the truth about facts made by politicians. This got me thinking about something that’s been on my mind for some time now: when will politicians begin blowing up my phone asking for online marketing consultations? How long before they stop making annoying trash-talking commercials on TV and start putting them on You Tube. I can see it now-”To learn more about how you can support John Smith’s run for the Senate, visit him online at www.myspace.com/johnsmithin08″. Then when the special Google Search feature proves that a statement they made was wrong, they can hire some shady black hat to screw with the Google Algorithm so that the “truth” appears at #1.  Wherever politics goes, corruption always follows. At least SEO’s will still be employed…

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Dump your Sitemap?

SEO BlackHat has some rather interesting thoughts on whether or not you should incorporte that Google Sitemap. While I think his points are valid, why not incorporate a sitemap for the viewer AND for the search engine ?

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