Um, yes, of course. How could I have possibly overlooked that significant market trend?
Okay, so maybe I’ve attended too many SEO conferences. When I looked at the agenda in my post, “Optimizing your schedule for Search Engine Strategies San Jose,” I was excited to see that Matt Cutts, the Software Engineer Guru from Google, was speaking on Day 2 during the Orion Keynote Panel: Technical & Information Giants. And I’m so used to seeing conference speakers like Marshall D. Simmonds, the Chief Search Strategist of The New York Times / About.com, on the SES conference agenda that I had missed the fact that he is being joined at SES San Jose by more than a dozen other conference speakers from brand name companies. This market trend is significant. In the past, conference speakers from brand name companies have been under-represented at search engine conferences. Part of this is evolutionary. In the early days, most search engine experts either headed up SEO companies or worked at one of the search engines. And these segments are still well represented on the Search Engine Stra
