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November 2007

Adversarial Information Retrieval — That’s Spam to You and Me

As I’ve said before, one man’s spam can often be another’s cutting-edge SEO tactic. No, I don’t condone spam in the true black sense of redirecting an innocent end-user query to an adult-related site or something like that. But you have to admit, in the highly competitive field of SEM/SEO, some tactical ingenuity gets tarred [...]

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What’s New at Yahoo?

About five years ago, I had an interview lined up with Tim Mayer, currently Yahoo’s VP of product management, back when he was with Fast/AllTheWeb. Because I ended up at the end of a drip in hospital the night before, the interview never happened. (Long story. Catch me at a conference and ask me about [...]

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