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Comment on Pork Barrel Software by Attacking process waste | The Merchant Stand

Attacking process waste | The Merchant Stand — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:55:16 +0000

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Comment on Software Release Management. It’s more than an IT thing. by Practical advice for educating employees about your eCommerce platform | The Merchant Stand

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:00:57 +0000

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Comment on Video affects your search engine results by Bob Williams

Bob Williams — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:20:00 +0000

One thing that isn’t static is the Google search algorithm. Hopefully I got through the localized results by specifying the school names in the query. I’ve also turned off Google history in my profile so that they are not suppose to keep track of what I’ve searched. But I’m sure the cookies can influence the results in some way.

Maybe you can try the same query and see how your results are the same or differ.

Comment on Online video ad usage is surging by Bob Williams

Bob Williams — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:17:00 +0000

Thanks for the kind words Daniel.

Comment on Video affects your search engine results by John Hawkins

John Hawkins — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:03:00 +0000

Interesting findings Bob. I agree, video is driving influencing the search results. But be careful. Even though you logged out of Google, they are using your history to influence the results (as of some time ago at least) using cookies. So unless you were running some sort of private browsing mode on your browser, they’re still serving up what you most likely want to see based on that history. Also based on your location/language etc… SO some bloke in England might have gotten totally different results (after all, what we do over here isn’t really “football” is it?

Comment on Online video ad usage is surging by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:10:00 +0000

That is true,bob. As an author and business man, I can relate to how you said, “According to eMarketer online video ad spending will grow by a compound annual rate of 38% in a five-year span ending in 2015. ”. I hope more people discover your blog because you really know what you’re talking about. Can’t wait to read more from you!

Comment on Moving to the cloud by Bob Williams

Bob Williams — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:57:00 +0000

I love the Evernote web clipper. It’s taken the place of what I previously used Delicious to do. Thanks for sharing the link with a great idea on getting Kindle book notes into Evernote.