Topics include: Robots.txt documentation, User feedback, IP delivery/geolocation/cloaking, Nofollow documentation, and a Better definition for doorway pages.
For more, visit Matt Cutt’s blog here.
p.s. Matt Please don’t ban me from Google for the stupid title. 
Quotes from the Forbes.com article:
“Last January, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a search engine called Wikia Search, a purported “Google-killer” that aimed to edit and refine search results with the same methods that have made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon…Since then, six months have passed, and Google…surprise, surprise–has yet to be killed. Web analytics company Hitwise reports that Wikia Search’s traffic is still too small to measure.”
Andrea Harris of Search Engine Land writes a post about “Getting the Most of a Search Marketing Conference” as a precursor to SMX Advanced in Seattle recently. She points out before the conference, you should:
From housewife to Guru, Jill Whalen has found if you follow your passion, it can reap you significant rewards. “Her foray into search engine optimization began in the early 1990s when she was a stay-at-home mom with three children and started an online parenting chat room. It became so popular that the members, who lived across the nation, wanted a website to house their forums.”**
From SEM Agency staff to self-employed consultants, SEO specialists appear to have learned most of their skills on their own. According to SEOMoz’s SEO Industry Survey where they queried 3000+ search engine marketers, approximately 58% of SEM Agency staff said they taught themselves Search Engine Optimization to a high of about 80+ % of self-employed non-consultant SEO marketers learning the SEO specialty on their own.
Well, this is the first time I’ve seen it, but I haven’t been able to log into the service for the past 12 hours. Usually, a service would activate or be accessible after a few hours, but this downtime is quite extensive.
As usual with most larger dotcom companies, they have very little recourse in terms of contacting them when trying to address customer service issues. Even their blog is down making it difficult to comment on the site. I hope I’m wrong or maybe it’s an access problem from Korea, but it is frustrating.
Using a little free public data and research, I found these have the highest traffic in terms of pure visitors/users traffic that I can find (links below):
Many of us in the Search Engine Marketing or the online marketing space count large numbers of searches that occur out there on the Internet — about 10 billion a month at the last count or so.
However, here’s something I’ll conjecture: What if 50% or more of our searches were due to pure laziness?
1. Avid reader - you will be reading possibly more than you’ve had to read for any other discipline. Even after you “feel” like you understand what is going on or what it takes to drive a website up the SERPs, if you don’t keep up with the news and changes over at Google or if you snooze while another quiet competitor slowly takes over market share, you may lose all job security. You need to stay on top of SEO & marketing trends and must LOVE to read about SEO Technology.
2. Social - either social online or off, you can’t live on an island like Tropical SEO’s Andy Hagan would
If Bruce Clay is an SEO Dinosaur, then Danny Sullivan is a young looking T Rex. In the earlier post about SEO Success Bruce Clay , Clay tells us that Sullivan was around at the first Search Engine Marketing conferences with Clay. He said they used to “trade emails” during that time.
Conduct a search on his name and you’ll find results for Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch
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