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Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
WebmasterWorld and Incisive Media will run their December conferences on the same dates, with potential speakers, sponsors, and attendees left with the decision of where to go.
Editor's Note: Do your December plans include cool Chicago blues and the SES conference, or the red-hot Vegas Strip and PubCon? This year people who may have attended both will have to choose. Where do you think you would go this year? Let us know what your travel plans are.
Two major search conferences are going head to head this year, forcing a wide array of people to choose between Search Engine Strategies and PubCon during the same week in December.
Barry Schwartz noted at SERoundtable how the two events would happen concurrently. "SES Chicago starts on December 3rd and runs through the 6th. PubCon starts on December 4th and runs through the 7th," he wrote.
Which makes us wonder, why would Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld choose to play a zero-sum game with IncisiveMedia?
Schwartz listed the various ways the two conferences will overlap in December: sponsors, speakers, exhibitors, audiences, and press (the latter to a smaller extent).
His very informal poll about where people will prefer to go in December, to Las Vegas for PubCon or Chicago for SES, has the majority of voters opting for Vegas.
A twenty degree difference in average temperature, not to mention the glittery draw of The Strip, could be a deal maker.
Schwartz believes there is some difference in the business opportunities available at the two conferences, and gives the nod to SES. There is also the "Danny Sullivan" factor to consider.
The well-regarded search expert is supposed to be at SES Chicago, according to Schwartz.
But Sullivan took part in PubCon last year, delivering a keynote at the November 2006 event. SES starts a day earlier than PubCon this year; perhaps the enterprising Sullivan, who launches his Search Marketing Expo in June, will make an appearance at both.
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David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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Google Protects Whats Left Of Your Privacy
 By Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer | WebProNews
There has been plenty of discussion lately on Google and their privacy policy. In a recent blog post Matt Cutts expressed his personal opinion on the issue.
He raised the point that Google now makes users queries anonymous after 18 to 24 months, something he says that few other search engines have addressed. He also noted that when users sign up for a Google account that they don't have to provide as much personal information as other search engines require.
More importantly Cutts points to what he believes are even larger threats to users privacy. He writes,"Another point is that your ISP has a superset of data that Google has, because everything you do passes through your ISP. So your ISP may have much more detailed records about places where you go on the net, plus they have a verified identity with something like a credit card, and they actually know which IPs you're on."
"With Google if you clear cookies and turn off your cable modem for a minute or two, you'll usually get a completely new IP address. Google would have no idea that it's the same person, but your ISP would still know."
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