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Morning Folks,
This blog has been a bit short of product updates, mainly due to laziness (Dave has taken advantage of my laziness to fill the blog with pictures and ramblings).
But while I may have been lazy, our enigmatic engineers have been working hard towards improving the quality of the search results: over the last couple of weeks, you should have noticed less duplicates and less expired listings, yet greater coverage.
But in the process, they managed to polish off all the cookies in the cookie jar (and all the soda). When we went to restock the kitchen, we noticed that the petty cash was running low. So in order to prevent an engineer revolt we are happy to announce, Advertising! (Feel free to applaud.)
That’s right, with every search result page now has a fresh list of ads on the side. You can ignore them, but remember: every click will feed one engineer for a day.
In all seriousness, we are testing this as a possible method of generating revenue to support this cool website. We promise to try our darndest to avoid flashing neon signs, and “punch the monkey” banner ads.
Relevancy is important. We want to make sure we can provide ads which you actually find useful. We may not get it correct from the beginning, but we will be constantly monitoring the ads, and tweaking them as we go. And this is where you come in: send us feedback, positive or negative about our ads, our decisions or even our choice of snacks.
John Battelle & The Search.
Come join us Thursday Nov. 10th for this month's Silicon Valley Search SIG meeting, headlined by John Battelle.
The Master of All Things Web 2.0 will take a look back at the last ten years of search, talk about his latest book, and peek forward a few years with four new vertical search startups -- including a conversation with our own Simply Hired CEO, Gautam Godhwani.
The meeting will be held at the Microsoft Mt View campus, Bldg 1 (directions on the Search SIG blog) -- please pre-register to ensure you get a seat.
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