At the end of lunch at an Italian bar in Islington

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I tell Doig how much I like his scarf, and he won't let me leave without it (at least I managed to snag the bill before he could). I can't imagine a better reason to come to London. Over the last hour and a half, we've shared stories about family, friends, work & politics. I hear about how he investigated forged antiquities with the British police for a Christie's auction and recount my own (much less exciting) tales of running a technology business.


Even if I did nothing else on the trip, this lunch w telemarketing leads, united arab emirates telephone number data ould have made the journey worthwhile. 9:00am GMT, February 18th This is why I'm here. Mike Grehan's panel of search marketing community leaders at SES London turns out to be a great session (at least, if the Tweets are to be believed). Jill Whalen says our jobs as Internet marketers should be to make the web a better place. I disagree and posit that our jobs are to serve our clients, and if the two goals don't intertwine, we have a fiduciary and contractual obligation to the latter over the former.


Mike Grehan worries that Google's crawl technology can't keep up with the speed of expansion user-generated content has brought to the web. I disagree again, noting how far and how fast Google can crawl. I think even if the web grew 10X tomorrow, Google's crawlers would have little issue keeping up. Overall, though, the disagreements are minor and they make the session exciting. We talk about new signals to search engines - things like user data, citations that aren't necessarily links and how search might change in the year to come.