Day four is concluding at Search Engine Strategies New York. Over 3000 total attendance --- our largest SES to date. There have been numerous news articles in the trade press about the show and all tend to be very positive.

Another barometer of the heat surrounding Search is the financial news that appeared this week. First we had Mamma.com reporting a profitable quarter (which resulted in a large gain in the common stock). Secondly we had news today that AskJeeves.com has agreed to purchase Ask.com for over $300 milliion. The market received the offer well as AskJeeves' stock price jumped.
I might also note that Marchex (owner of Enhance.com), the company headed by Russ Horowitz of Go2Net.com fame, is about to go public.

We are looking forward to our first SES in Toronto in mid-May and of course the other 7 SES events we run annually (with more countries to be added shortly). It is a great time for Internet marketing. Certainly no organization can be without an Internet marketing position in order to grow business online --- and more on that in the coming months.