@dannysullivan To be fair, SEW wasn’t for sale, Danny :) I’d been knocking on the door for months before a conversation opened. Persistence, and deep respect for what you built, did the rest.
@johnandrews@gaganghotra_@mayank_jee He is part of the dev team :) not management. Also, when this site was launched / doing well I was either in kindergarten or school :))
@johnandrews@gaganghotra_@mayank_jee Later that year, he sold it to Mecklermedia. In May 1998 they also acquired Boardwatch Magazine. Late 1998: B2B publisher Penton Media acquires Mecklermedia for $274 million. This officially makes Boardwatch and Search Engine Watch corporate stablemates.
@johnandrews@gaganghotra_@mayank_jee Thanks John! I’ve acquired a part of web history as I like to call it. We are deeply committed to restoring it to its heights. now, on your initial comment - Danny Sullivan founded Search Engine Watch in 1997 to cover search industry news.
@JordiRib1 As a publisher we see "impressions" in Bing Webmaster. There's no clear mention that these are actually visits to our website, so can you clarify if they are?
@blogbizznass And that's the scariest part. Plus the fact that they might unleash SGE at I/O. Prabhakar and Pinchai are riding the wave and we are the useless businesses they're throwing under the bus for their juicy search ad bucks.