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SES NY: Is the Search Party Over?
By dave_pasternack | March 20, 2008
I spent a few hours at SES NY this week but had to leave because it was so damned depressing. Floor traffic was down, there was plenty of unrented exhibition space, and even the vendors seemed tired, bored, and irritable. I don’t know what’s ailing SES, but it’s clear that there are too many search-related trade shows, and they often clash on the calendar. There’s a disconnect between the interests of the conference industry and the interests of the vendors and the attendees that support it. I’d hate to make the prediction that search-oriented conferences are on the road to extinction but this fatal, greed-driven conflict may cause SES to soon join COMDEX in the pantheon of doomed computer industry confabs.
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