Yahoo And Human Knowledge

Webproworld' publisher, Rich Ord, continued his PubCon crawl by attending the Search Engine Smackdown session. The session included a bit of smack talk but was more informative than anything else. One speaker, Tim Mayer of Yahoo provided a glimpse into the mind of Yahoo search for today and the future.

Digg Could Revolutionize Search Relevance

Users of Digg.com know how effective the process for promoting stories by votes or "diggs" has become; imagine if Digg was the way to get into a new search index with a Google-like algorithm to deliver results from it.

Alibaba Wishes To Make Google Disappear

Now that it has absorbed Yahoo China, Jack Ma's Alibaba wants to be the top search site in China and render the whole Google versus Microsoft fight over China moot.

Getting Your Sales Channel to Follow-up On Leads

B2B marketers know getting field sales people to follow-up on sales leads is tough but getting channel partners (VARs, resellers and distributors) to follow-up and close-the-loop seems down right impossible.