by Jay Bhatti on December 12, 2009

Microsoft recently added Bing Local. A direct competitor to Google Local Business Listings. However, check out the business claiming page on Bing today:
https://ssl.bing.com/listings/ListingCenter.aspx
As a former Microsoft Product Manager, it pains me to no end to see how poor Microsoft performs on delivering quality products.
by Jay Bhatti on September 29, 2009
Issue date: 12/3/01 - PDF | Link
This article was written by Jay Bhatti on 12/03/2001 for the Wharton School
It was still a few years before World War II. General Douglas MacArthur was a pretty popular man. Given his status, the executives at JP Morgan offered him a very high level position at the bank. ...
by Jay Bhatti on September 23, 2009

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by Jay Bhatti on September 23, 2009

Start a Search Engine Company
This duo stands apart from the big guys with its people search technology.
By Amanda C. Kooser | Entrepreneur Magazine - October 2008 | PDF Version
Some entrepreneurs may look at an online search market dominated by Google and Yahoo and then look elsewhere on the internet for a startup idea. But ...
by Jay Bhatti on September 21, 2009
Despite Privacy Concerns, 74% of people openly show their age on the web!
As a people search engine, Spock crawls and indexes millions of web documents and social network profiles everyday.
As a result, we end up gathering interesting demographic data about people. For example, a vast majority of people who have a social networking profile or web document about themselves on the web are ...
by Jay Bhatti on September 21, 2009
In a Spock Research study of 3 million corporate bio pages on the internet, Spock discovered that men were three times more likely to overly boast about their professional accomplishments then their female counterparts.
For example, men were 3.15 times more likely to have the words "accomplished", "responsible for", "served as" and "led" in their corporate ...
by Jay Bhatti on September 21, 2009

Spock was mentioned as one of the leading compaines alongside Facebook and Google in ZDNet. Click here to see the article.
PDF of ZDNET Article
by Jay Bhatti on August 25, 2009
Create a site with unique, rich content.
Ensure that both content and page markup are well-formatted and have no errors.
Google will naturally favor bigger brands, and push them to the top of search results.
This means that site branding is more important than ever.
The 'keywords' meta tag is never used by Google for determining search ranking.
Keywords
Have 5-10 ...
by Jay Bhatti on August 2, 2009
These penalties are speculation, and penalty numbers are neither an exact nor a precise measure of the exact ranking change associated with each penalty. A penalty of -N means that a site will drop (approximately) N positions in Google's returned results, equivalent to falling N/10 pages from the front page.
Certainty
Description
Penalty
Potential Solution
High
Site is overly-optimized for a certain keyword
-6
Do ...
by Jay Bhatti on July 21, 2009
Click here to see that article about Spock and how it is changing the web.