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Jane and Robot Meet up At Yahoo Santa Monica, Wednesday, August 19th

By Vanessa - August 19, 2009

If you’re in the Santa Monica area Wednesday evening, stop by Yahoo between 4:30 and 7 for food, drinks, site reviews, discussion, and Q&A time. We’ll cover anything you want related to search acquisition, search-friendly web development, content strategy, and web analytics.
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Branded Search

By Vanessa - August 14, 2009

Sometimes, we take branded search (searches for your brand name or domain name) for granted. We just assume that people who know our name will find us.
Today, I wanted to book a flight on BMI (more accurately known as British Midlands Airways). First, I tried direct type in to bmi.com. That was not correct. (One [...]

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This Week: Events in Seattle and San Jose!

By Vanessa - August 3, 2009

Come on by the Kit Cat Theatre in Seattle tonight for Ignite 7! In five minutes, I’ll tell you everything you need to know so that you never eat boring and non-delicious food again. Because seriously, life’s too short to eat bad food.
Then Wednesday evening, I’ll be hosting a Jane and Robot meetup at Yahoo’s [...]

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Search Shorts: Please Make the Music Stop

By Vanessa - August 1, 2009

Some sites like to play music when you land on them. I’m not sure why. I suppose they want to envelop the visitor into an entire “experience” or set a mood or portray their musical point of view. (Phrase unapologetically stolen from the Food Network’s food reality show where the judges are always asking the [...]

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You’re Invited To Yahoo! To Chat About Search!

By Vanessa - July 29, 2009

I’m not positive, but it seems like there may be some news about Yahoo! floating around today. I only scanned the headlines, but I think it has something to do with the Jane and Robot meetups at the Yahoo! Sunnyvale and Santa Monica offices in August.
Next Wednesday, August 5th, come on over to the Yahoo! [...]

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