Danny Sullivan

Archives for September 2006

Dear S. Larson Of Citibank: You’re Not Real, So Please Retire

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I’ve had a Citibank credit card since I was in college. That’s nearly two decades of being with them, which means that little table they stuck up one day at UC Irvine has provided pretty good ROI for the company. Over the years, I’ve had various letters from Citibank, usually signed by the hard-working S. […]

SEW/SEW-Owner Incisive Going Private

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In case you missed it, Incisive Media — which owns Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies — is going private. Now folks are speculating in terms of what that means with me. First some background, then a very short update that really mainly to say, I’m still talking with them. Search Engine Watch reported […]

Why Search Sucks & You Won’t Fix It The Way You Think

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I took part in Euro Foo Camp 2006 this past weekend. As part of that, I did a session called “Why Search Sucks & You Won’t Fix It The Way You Think.” Figuring my audience was likely filled with AJAX-happy, the-community-is-all-love-and-good tech types, I was deliberately trying to spark some discussion plus provide a reality […]

Pondering Next Steps — Making No Fast Decisions

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It’s been a week since I announced my departure from Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies. A number of people have asked me for a “what’s next” type of update. The answer is, I still don’t know. I will try to give some broad strokes as to where I’m at. I’ve had a variety […]

Remembering My Big Trip Of 1996

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Just over ten years ago, my wife Lorna and I sold most of what we owned, shipped it back to her native Britain and spent the next four months traveling from California to Alaska to Western Canada and then down through the Western United States to where we started. We then said goodbye to our long suffering sub-compact Ford […]