Jerry Yang's Keynote @ SES
Keynote with Jerry Yang
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001602.html
Barry Schwartz sums up Yahoo chief Jerry Yang's keynote at Search Engine Strategies - I had a brief chat with Tim Mayer this morning and he was pretty excited about it, and the 2 sessions he's speaking in today - sounds like great fun, wish i was there :)
Danny then brought up RSS and ways to monitor Web sites, what about the blog tools themselves? Jerry Yang answered that they are doing this big time in Asia. Yahoo! feels the more they can do to generate, nurture and expand the blog content, the better off the search community is. Following up their experience with Geocities, you can look to Yahoo! to be open in leveraging these tools towards blogging. Part of Yahoo!'s focus is about a community aspect and that is what blogs are about, how do they tie this into the Yahoo! package.
How do you see personalization changing for Yahoo!? Jerry Yang said that the relevance of search is the main component of any search. He said its not just about algorithms anymore, like PageRank or Link Data. Its more now about personalization and tying into that preference based searching. This adds a tremendous amount of value. My Yahoo! is a piece of this but you will be seeing it more.
If you saw the session, let us know what it was like eh?
Didn't see it but...
I was talking to a potential client at lunch, and he was unimpressed with the session. He had come in early this morning to specifically see it, and after he did see it, he wished he hadn't.
He mentioned something about Danny lobbing Mr. Yang "softballs."
Again, I didn't see it, so this is just hearsay, but right now it's the only thing I've heard about it so far. I'll ask some others later what they thought.
Thanks Jill
We had a gentle dig at gentle Danny in another thread recently, i can quite believe it, but then it must be tough to grill the star guest...