Search is by far one of the most powerful navigational paradigms of the modern day internet. Yet the internet is littered with sites that have completely useless internal searches. We might want to face the fact that with current tools and understanding, searching is still an enormous challenge that’ll easily devour any project budget thrown at it.

Futurice’s Tampere and Helsinki offices have been competing fiercely in the last few month and the battleground of choise has been none other than the Futurice-group on Last.fm! Subject: Tampere metal dudes headbangin’ to Slayer vs. the Helsinki Pitchfork-readin’ hipsters! For weeks, Slayer reigned in blood over the charts, but for a few weeks now…

A project where the initial scope of work is underestimated is more or less doomed from the very start and will eventually end up in lack of quality or an unhealthy blame game between the customer and supplier.

There’s one striking similarity in planning software projects and dating for people over 30: choices.

Google finally made an official statement that they do not use the META tag “keywords” in their search ranking.

Vierityspalkki.fi ran an amazing article on the top 10 challenges facing web based projects in 2009, but as it is in Finnish, I though an English summary is definitely in order as the author, Perttu Tolvanen, really hit the nail on the head on many of these! This list is not scientific, but based on…

Here’s my presentation on search engine optimization presented to Futurice employees on September 8th 2009.

Like the Lazy Lester song popularized by the Kinks quoted in the title, I too will always much rather be a lover than a fighter.