Following up on earlier commentary at both Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch, Conductor examined 2,000 informational and transactional queries. Read the latest Conductor blog post for more analysis of the where wikipedia ranks in the SERP landscape: http://cdtr.co/GB66Ou

Nathan Safran, Conductor’s Senior Research Analyst, recently wrote up this great post on how Google is using G+ info on rankings. Personal Brand Management in the Google Age Now – if Google would go about releasing profiles for Google Apps domains….

Note: this post originally appeared on the Conductor Blog. One can often tell a great deal about where an industry’s technology is headed by understanding both the size of the opportunity in the space and the operational inefficiencies that plague it. The greater the opportunity (the more at stake) and the greater the operational inefficiencies,[…]

Charlie Sheen’s latest quote: “Did they expect it to be like a normal interview?” he added. “Did they expect it to be just conventional and boring and whatever else? No, man, it’s — we’re shaking the tree.” (emphasis added, but I’m sure he and his two live in girlfriends are regular readers.)

Adotas’s Gavin Dunaway recently decided to speak with several search industry veterans to get their take on Google and social search. For the first interview, Gavin and I spoke about the market forces Google has created, the emergence of the social search engines, and how marketers should react. Read the full article on Adotas:

I originally wrote this post on the Conductor.com blog here: Yesterday we saw one of the more colorful Google doodles roll out – and today we understand what they’re up to. Google’s answer to Microsoft’s Bing ‘Discovery Engine’ is Google Instant – their extension of Google Suggest to include actual results. What is Google Instant?[…]

Disclaimer – this post runs toward the technical, and has nothing at all to do about marketing. You’ve been warned. I love my MacBook Pro. It’s reliable, fast as hell, and I look really good holding it next to a black turtleneck. But there’s one thing that I just can’t give up – and that’s[…]

Just finished this: Debuted it at the Conductor Searchlight Launch at espaceny.com