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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa). Google’s Knowledge Cards, Kohn offers , are a perfect example of aggregating intent—answering a query and providing valuable context. In SERPs, Google shows its hand. The lesson?

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. Kickfolio: service to help brands market their iPhone apps. Oh, one more thing.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Because of the incredible array of information available, we have a desperate need for filtering mechanisms. Does anyone really watch the full NBC lineup anymore?

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

For example, if you’re a wine retailer in New York, missing a payment to your supplier by just one day means that your next shipment will have to be paid on delivery, putting a huge strain on your cash flows. Managing the timing of payments is critical and can have dire consequences.

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) new york times.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Renzoe Box

Austin Startup

This year we aim to serve 50,000 new customers and launch with five new brands. There’s nothing quite like exploring a culture through its buildings and aggregates of man-made structures. Tell us about something you love. I love architecture and beautifully designed spaces. What do you do when you are low on energy?