Hi Brian, I've taken over responsibility for this area of the product. Getting a good estimate on the amount of bot/spider traffic is something you could work with your technical account manager on. Lithium is currently rebuilding our metrics/analytics technology stack, and seperate filtering out and counting bots is part of that effort. The product will eventually do this automatically. ... View more

These are both good moves. ... View more

Nice article. As I read it, I felt like what I would like to see is Google present the 2 different results sets you mentioned - PageRank & SocialRelevance. I think they have to get in the SocialRelevance game, as they are, if they want to continue to lead search. I would like to have the option of toggling between these 2 result sets, as you mentioned. For Monico, I use PageRank. For others, SocialRelevance. For most, both - just to compare/contrast. ... View more

Nice article, Michael. When I started to read up on gamification sometime ago, there seemed to be some backlash from (people whom I assume are) some of the thought leaders/early entrants to this space, against the idea that "everything can be gamified". They seemed to feel that people were going kinda overboard, and viewing gamification as this "magic dust" that could be sprinkled on activity in order to motivate/engage people. What do you think about that - are there some things that are just "too lame" (or whatever) to be gamified, or is it just a matter of employing the right gaming dynamics? Thanks and I look fwd to the next article. I'm playing a litte catch-up here. ... View more

Enjoyed the sentiment "deep dive". Thanks! ... View more