Mike Blumenthal, who pens the estimable Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search blog, has compiled a comprehensive list of coverage for the SMX Local & Mobile show that’s the best roundup of coverage I’ve seen for the show, despite its witty, self-deprecating title: The Lazy Son of The Mother of All SMX Local/Mobile Recaps. Thanks Mike!

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

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There was once a mom and pop kind of web shop selling auction products, making money through the affiliate commissions. She (the wife) would do the design and customer contacts, and he (the husband) would do the programming of the site. Mind you, they had no products of their own. The only thing they could do to sell more was thus not to improve the products, but simply improve their site to bring in more people and do more sales.

Their sales, while affording them a small income to live by, were anything from impressive. A couple of dozen people came by each day, only some of them buying. Compared with other web shops they heard of they were a small fish in the sea. The web developer knew about programming, alright, but didn’t feel his code did anything to attract more customers, and that’s what counted, as his wife used to r …

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There was once a mom and pop kind of web shop selling auction products, making money through the affiliate commissions. She (the wife) would do the design and customer contacts, and he (the husband) would do the programming of the site. Mind you, they had no products of their own. The only thing they could do to sell more was thus not to improve the products, but simply improve their site to bring in more people and do more sales.

Their sales, while affording them a small income to live by, were anything from impressive. A couple of dozen people came by each day, only some of them buying. Compared with other web shops they heard of they were a small fish in the sea. The web developer knew about programming, alright, but didn’t feel his code did anything to attract more customers, and that’s what counted, as his wife used to r …

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There was once a mom and pop kind of web shop selling auction products, making money through the affiliate commissions. She (the wife) would do the design and customer contacts, and he (the husband) would do the programming of the site. Mind you, they had no products of their own. The only thing they could do to sell more was thus not to improve the products, but simply improve their site to bring in more people and do more sales.

Their sales, while affording them a small income to live by, were anything from impressive. A couple of dozen people came by each day, only some of them buying. Compared with other web shops they heard of they were a small fish in the sea. The web developer knew about programming, alright, but didn’t feel his code did anything to attract more customers, and that’s what counted, as his wife used to r …

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There was once a mom and pop kind of web shop selling auction products, making money through the affiliate commissions. She (the wife) would do the design and customer contacts, and he (the husband) would do the programming of the site. Mind you, they had no products of their own. The only thing they could do to sell more was thus not to improve the products, but simply improve their site to bring in more people and do more sales.

Their sales, while affording them a small income to live by, were anything from impressive. A couple of dozen people came by each day, only some of them buying. Compared with other web shops they heard of they were a small fish in the sea. The web developer knew about programming, alright, but didn’t feel his code did anything to attract more customers, and that’s what counted, as his wife used to r …

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There was once a mom and pop kind of web shop selling auction products, making money through the affiliate commissions. She (the wife) would do the design and customer contacts, and he (the husband) would do the programming of the site. Mind you, they had no products of their own. The only thing they could do to sell more was thus not to improve the products, but simply improve their site to bring in more people and do more sales.

Their sales, while affording them a small income to live by, were anything from impressive. A couple of dozen people came by each day, only some of them buying. Compared with other web shops they heard of they were a small fish in the sea. The web developer knew about programming, alright, but didn’t feel his code did anything to attract more customers, and that’s what counted, as his wife used to r …

Read More The Web Developer and His Wife (A Fairy Tale)...

There was once a mom and pop kind of web shop selling auction products, making money through the affiliate commissions. She (the wife) would do the design and customer contacts, and he (the husband) would do the programming of the site. Mind you, they had no products of their own. The only thing they could do to sell more was thus not to improve the products, but simply improve their site to bring in more people and do more sales.

Their sales, while affording them a small income to live by, were anything from impressive. A couple of dozen people came by each day, only some of them buying. Compared with other web shops they heard of they were a small fish in the sea. The web developer knew about programming, alright, but didn’t feel his code did anything to attract more customers, and that’s what counted, as his wife used to r …

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Like many before it, most recently Mahalo, Wikia Search has introduced a Firefox toolbar, called “Wikia Evolution,” to expand the site’s reach and engage more users in the process of adding and annotating search results.

In the notes, it suggests that Google is taking a page from its community playbook: “Already, we’re the cutting edge when it comes to incorporating user feedback into our search results, so much so that Google is experimenting with eerily similar features.”

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