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Remember Ask? You know, the search engine with the Butler. While the company doesn't get brought up in the discussion as much as it once did, it has not surrendered to Google and it's other competitors just yet. Ask has now announced some advances in its semantic search technology. If you're unfamiliar with the concept of Semantic Search, Wikipedia explains it:

Now that I’m back from SMX advanced and have had a few days to catch up I’ll share my thoughts. I had some client meeting to take care of, and some interviews and videos to shoot, so I didn’t get to as many sessions as I’d like to but I’ll talk about what I did see.

The Bulldog Reporter Advanced PR Technology in Practice in San Francisco wrapped up and here are a few photos. One thing is for sure, I need to buy a new camera. Another thing is that the event started out with lots of conversation about using SEO to drive “pull” PR efforts and ended heavy on the social media. It was a great match for TopRank: SEO and social media for public relations.

A sample of a spam message making the rounds demonstrated how someone used a Google URL, with advanced search operators, to send people to a fake retail site. It could be much worse.

I've been attending search engine, webmaster and various sundry internet conferences for several years now. Been there. Done that. Got lots...

Bulldog Reporter, Advanced PR Forum, Olympic Collection, Los Angeles

This Friday, March 2nd, I'm speaking at the Bulldog Reporter conference - Advanced PR Technology in Practice, a day-long event discussing how to transform the state of the art into increased visibility, greater ROI and crisis solutions. The event will be held in Los Angeles at The Olympic Collection.

Richard MacManus stumbled on AskX.com, a testing user interface for Ask's search engine.