This blog will focus on the pulse of the Seattle Web marketing scene, a community that undulates with the currents of Search and interactive marketing in all of its many manifestations. The Silicon Valley may have its its Yahoo!, its eBay, its Apple, and, (gulp), its Google; the Silicon Forest of Oregon may have its WebTrends; but the Emerald City of Seattle and its surrounding areas can stake its rightful claim to a tradition of innovation, imagination and missionary zeal that has transformed it into one of the top Internet marketing capitols of the world.
Consider the reigny atmosphere: Microsoft, encompassing MSN adCenter, MSN Shopping, Windows Live, X-Box, and more; InfoSpace, the purveyors of mobile directory content plus the MetaSearch engines of WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, Dogpile and Excite; Amazon.com and its gold standard for shopping personalization and product search, not to mention A-9, and RealNetworks among many.