Understanding Google Places & Local Search – Developing Knowledge about Local Search

January 13, 2010

Semmy’s: Honoring Search Articles from 2009

The Matt McGee‘s annual Semmy Awards have been announced and 3 of my articles published this year have been nominated. My thanks go out to Matt (and his many minions) for all of his effort in recognizing the many great articles from throughout the year. It is a monumental task to track, collate and order the content. Its an honor & pleasure to have these articles included in the process.

In the Analytics category, Martijn Beijik’s excellant piece tracking the results of a 7-pack placement was nominated:

Tracking Local search Traffic with Analytics

In the Local Search category my article explaining one of Google’s patents was given the nod:

What is Location Prominence?

And in the Google Category, my article about Google’s approach to creating business listings was annointed:

Google Maps, Small Business & Society – who’s crazy?

Please consider leaving a comment as your input will help me (& everyone else) better understand and learn about local.

6 Comments »

  1. Thx for the kind words, Mike — but I should mention that there are 8 people who spend the year reading and nominating articles for the SEMMYS. It’s not a one-man show by any means. :)

    Best of luck with your nominations!

    Comment by Matt McGee (39 comments) — January 13, 2010 @ 3:14 pm

  2. Whatever happened to your Rubber Chicken awards, Mike?

    Comment by David Mihm (168 comments) — January 13, 2010 @ 6:04 pm

  3. @David

    Good question. I haven’t had the time to reprise the effort and I honestly thought that no one had noticed. :) But if I can nominate myself I would put this article in the running: Maps sentiment analysis-Foreign speakers need not apply.

    Comment by Mike (2500 comments) — January 13, 2010 @ 6:09 pm

  4. Well I see it every time I look in your sidebar :) I think you should reinstate them. That was a terrific article you mentioned. I have a couple others saved, should you desire nominations.

    Comment by David Mihm (168 comments) — January 13, 2010 @ 7:14 pm

  5. Congrats and best of luck for your nominations. It will be nice to see if you are awarded with the prize.

    Comment by Francis (3 comments) — January 14, 2010 @ 3:14 am

  6. @David

    Would you be willing to sit as a judge?

    @Matt
    I have corrected my oversight of the many in the article above

    Comment by Mike Blumenthal (2009 comments) — January 14, 2010 @ 7:39 am

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