Take the SEO Quiz!

You think you know your stuff? Been jumping around the forums and think you have what it takes get a 100% on the new SEO Quiz? Well..by all means, answer away!

20 Questions

Stoney pointed out this neat game the other day. The AI actually guessed all my tries. I played a few times and was amazed that it was smart enough to get it. Amazing! Play 20 Questions with your computer and let me know if you stump it.

Cool Analysis Tool

Very comprehensive/extensive tool that gives a lot of data. Type in a search term and check out all the information revealed.

www.GoLexa.com

Have fun! :)

Search Engine Product Placement

I got the itch after leaving work yesterday to get National Treasure from Hollywood Video.

There was one scene in the moving that caught my eye in regards to search engines. As the bad guys are trying to find the good guys, they have, of course, a trusty laptop that can connect to the Internet from anywhere on the planet.

Well, the bad guys needed to figure out where the good guys where going. So, they pull up the trusty laptop and do a search on Yahoo!. One of the guys says, "Top results" and BAM! ...they found exactly what they were looking for with their one keyword search.

I tried that search with that same keyword and no top results garnered anything to what the movie was looking for at the time.

PS - What they were looking for was stow from the liberty bell.

Great post at WMW

I had to share this. Probably one of the best analogies of the Google sandbox:

Look at it this way. It's spring. Competitive soccer tryouts are here. Let's say there's a competitive league for boys 8-12. This is not your run of the mill league; it's a very competitive league. Not all players on a team get to play equal amounts of time. The least capable play very little. But in order to always have talented players in the wings, each year the team drafts a few 8 year olds and a few 9 year olds. By the time they are 11 or 12, they'll be great. They get to practice with the big boys, etc.

So, you're the coach. You know that for the most part, the 12 year old boys are best. Then the 11's, the 10's, and so on. You automatically assume that the new 8 year olds and the returning 9 year olds won't be good enough to start, or even see much game time, except at the end, if there's a big lead.

All the kids are playing by the same rules, and all are judged by the same criteria. But the 8 year olds almost never start, and when they do, they have to be far superior to almost all of the other 8 year olds.

The current algo works in much the same way. The sandbox filter says that for an 8 year old to play (i.e., new site), it has to be judged to be of a quality comparable to a 12 year old (four year old site). The 8 year old has to show something special. But if he can, then he can start. It just doesn't happen very often.