Search Engine Land vs. Search Engine Watch
Update
An editor at SEW pointed out that I wasn’t comparing apples to oranges. He’s absolutely right – I’ve had the wrong SEW RSS feed in my reader for some time now. Their blog is far better: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/
I hate posts that aren’t fully researched – this was a little embarrassing…
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It is clearer than ever that Danny Sullivan was the driving force behind SEW – allowing him to leave (and start a competitor!) was a huge mistake. Here is an example of the last few headlines to float across my RSS reader since Jan 1:
Search Engine Land:
- Google Patches Serious Gmail Contacts Bug
- Google To Make Stronger Effort With Blogging & Communication In 2007?
- Google’s Manhattan Office Attractive & Inviting
- New Duplicate Content and Mapping Patents from Google – January 2, 2007
- 14 “Is Google Evil?” Tipping Points Since 2001
Now look at the single post since the New Year from Search Engine Watch:
There is just no competition.
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While I certainly wouldn’t disagree with you about Danny being the driving force behind SEW, I wanted to point out that you’re making an apples-to-oranges comparison here. The feed you’re looking at from SEW is our SearchDay feed, which only includes the one article/day that goes in our newsletter.
A more accurate comparison would be with our blog (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/), feed here (http://feeds.searchenginewatch.com/sewblog). That’s where we post the majority of stories.
Now if you want to compare those two and still say there’s no competition, that’s your prerogative, but at least give us a fair shake.
Thanks,
Kevin Newcomb, SEW News Editor
Great point. I’ve had the SEW feed in my reader for so long that I didn’t even realize it wasn’t the true ‘content feed. I’ve updated my post.