Posts Tagged ‘Conference’

Digital Hollywood Internet Marketing Conference Today

May 7th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

Well I finally made it to Hollywood last night at midnight thanks to my car breaking down yesterday and someone breaking out my back rear window. It’s always a bummer to spend $300 just to get back to the same state you were the day before (having a working car…lol). But, undaunted, I made the journey last night to my favorite city outside of San Diego and I am ready to rock! I don’t speak today until 2pm but we have an 8am meeting that I am currently at waiting for other speakers to arrive. We are also right next to the Dreamworks people who are showcasing here as well.

Today I am going to be speaking on (more…)

A Visual Comparison of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft

May 5th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

All the noise today about Microsoft dropping it’s bid for Yahoo (hopefully it stays that way) inspired me today to take another look at the differences between the search engines and why one (Google) is utterly dominating the competition (Yahoo and MSN). And suddenly as I looked around the office and noticed some of the “swag” that my fellow BOLers had picked up from the search engines at various conferences, I was immediately struck by the obvious. The bottom line is, company culture has everything to do with why one company is winning and the others are losing. And that culture ironically is perfectly illustrated in the following picture. Google uses sophisticated technology and spends the money to do things right, Yahoo has some clever ideas but they aren’t quite up to speed, and MSN is still lost in the past:

Visual Comparison of Google, Yahoo and MSN Search Engines

OMS Was Fun!

February 25th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

Well now that things have finally settled down a little here in San Diego because OMS is over, I am getting an opportunity to put my thoughts together about this amazing conference. And when I say amazing, I am not referring to the number of excellent speakers and the vast amount of online marketing information that was presented (although to be sure there was an abundance of both). I am referring to the number of incredible people I had an opportunity to speak with who are involved with all kinds of fascinating projects and Web sites. And it was a lot of fun to encounter so many of them who were so interested in SEO. And the OMS team did a great job of making sure (more…)