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The blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., the content marketing, strategy and media company founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of the wiki, SmallBusiness.com.
RexBlog.com was created in August, 2000.
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Category Archives: search
Five Reasons Domains Are Still Important
This post, including the title, is my reaction to a blog post from Evan Williams, titled, Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important. Ironically, I agree with everything he writes, except one: the title. So this isn’t a negative reaction, … Continue reading
Posted in business, identity, internet, search, small business, twitter
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Google social search results are great (not creepy)
This isn’t a post for my tech and new media friends. Rather, it’s a post for my friends who do NOT obsessively follow developments related to the intersection of media, technology and marketing: in other words, nearly everyone I know … Continue reading
JC Penny wise and a pound of hyperlinks foolish
“When you read the enormous list of sites with Penney links, the landscape of the Internet acquires a whole new topography. It starts to seem like a city with a few familiar, well-kept buildings, surrounded by millions of hovels kept … Continue reading
Posted in Custom Media, internet, search
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Why Boutiques.com is a big-deal tech and marketing story
I’ve often said on this blog, if the first place you learn the inside story about a new technology-related product is the New York Times, then it’s likely doomed. The reason (for those of you who aren’t among the 12 … Continue reading
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Rex Answers: To find something on Apple.com, use Google
[For an answer to the question "What is Rex Answers?" scroll to the bottom of this post.] Several questions I’ve been asked recently can all be distilled to this: How do you find what you’re looking for on the website … Continue reading
That mystery stainless steel inner tube is an exhaust donut (probably)
A week ago, I blogged about the mystery stainless steel tube I saw during a recent trip to Maine. I used the item to demonstrate the challenge of “visual search” based on shapes and colors. Visual search is a big … Continue reading
Help solve the mystery of the stainless steel inner tube thing
[See note at the end of this post.] During a vacation in Maine last week (the vacation photos are here, but it now seems like a month ago), I saw a stainless steel inner tube-like thing (if you’re reading this … Continue reading
Posted in photography, search
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Google continues its search for the holy grail (a journey that leads to a war with Facebook)
[Warning: This post rated PG, for "Pretty Geeky."] Late yesterday (Wednesday, June 29) on its “Social Web Blog,” Google announced enhancements to the feature called “social search” they launched several months ago. I blogged about social search when Google first … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, amazon, google, search
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How Google’s algorithm rules everything
Steven Levy has a fascinating look at Google’s algorithm in Wired magazine. For those of us who are hopelessly wonkish about all-things-Google, there is little new in the facts presented — it’s not a “how-to” article about search engine optimization … Continue reading
Posted in google, search
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Google advertises in lots of good old fashioned ways
In his typical insightful way, master of the search universe Danny Sullivan provides a thorough breakdown of the Google ad that appeared on the Superbowl last night. In his post, he also runs down several past examples of Google using … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, google, marketing, search
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Google gets a little glue-like
Many people know I’m a fan of a web service called Glue (although it’s at the URL, “getglue.com”, not glue). I allow the service to follow me around the web and it gives me the chance to thumbs up or … Continue reading
Posted in identity, search, social media
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Where to learn about Google’s Social Search
As my accidental role as content curator of geekish news for non-geeks, I have a rule: when a certain person I consider my control group for non-geekish people (i.e., my wife) asks me about something that has not even launched … Continue reading
Here’s my card, Google me
Recently, Google and iPrint.com gave away sets of 25 “business” cards to promote Google’s integration of Google Profiles into its search results. According to Matt McGee at SearchEngineLand.com, the card sets were given to the first 10,000 people who requested … Continue reading
Posted in google, identity, search, social media
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Here’s my card, Google me
Recently, Google and iPrint.com gave away sets of 25 “business” cards to promote Google’s integration of Google Profiles into its search results. According to Matt McGee at SearchEngineLand.com, the card sets were given to the first 10,000 people who requested … Continue reading
Posted in google, identity, search, social media
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Wolfram Alpha is not a Twitter-killer
The title of this post is a joke, of course. Last night’s “softly launched” Wolfram Alpha “computational knowledge engine” (official “pre-launch” is Monday) has nothing to do with killing Twitter. Nor, for that matter, does it have anything to do … Continue reading
