Went to session with Bradley Horowitz - VP of Technology Development Group for Yahoo! and heard him talk about the acquisiton of flickr and how to lower barriers to partipation in collaborative environments...all very interesting...but then he started talking about Yahoo! Answers.

As product manager for eSeries/eCM, i am on a daily basis both intrigued and haunted by search. It's the inevitable siren calling - the lure of a better and more precise search experience. I hear it from customers, partners, anyone who does anything on any website....My favorite from back in my consulting days has to be the inevitable comparison to google where I would hear...

For folks involved in putting up new web sites, having a Google ranking can be important, or one of the most important acts of promotion one can do. Definitely, Google rules when it comes to search. Thus there are whole industries dedicated to Search Engine Optimization (SOA).

Today, almost 6 months from when we registered the iMISCommunity.com domain name, and shortly afterwards went through the many of the steps for domain promotion, Google is finally giving the site some page rank. I suppose this corresponds to the 5-6 months others talk about on the web, in which Google puts new sites in a virtual "sandbox".