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Pandia Search CentralSusanne and Per KochOslo, NorwayNOLUG Feb 25 2008www.pandia.com
The history of Pandia
Edderkoppen• The Norwegian Minister of
Education, Research and Church Affairs, Gudmund Hernes, establishes the magazine Schola in 1993
• Per Koch becomes part of the editorial board and starts the column Edderkoppen (The Spider)
• Per also initiates a Web version of Schola
Schola closed down• Schola was closed down by
Parliament in 1997
• Per and Susanne decided to build a new web site on Internet Searching in 1998, partly based on the experience gained from Edderkoppen
Pandia established December 1998• Pandia is established as a all-in-one link
collection for Internet search resources
• The name Pandia, after the Greek goddess of light and illumanation, was chosen as it was short and snappy and because the .com domain was available
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine
Pandia expands• 1998: All-in-one collection for search
engines and directories
• 1999: Goalgetter Web Search tutorial
• 1999: Web Directory (ODP)
• 2000: Pandia Metasearch Engine
• 2000: Pandia People Search
• 2000: Pandia Radio Search
2001 - 2003• 2001: Syntax Q-cards
• 2001: Pandia Search Engine Optimization
• 2001: Email newsletter
• 2001: Newsfinder
• 2002: Pandia Kids & Teens
• 2003: Search engine marketing tutorial
2004 - 2008• 2005: Search Engine Detective, collection of
search engine oriented sites and blogs
• 2005: Using Wordpress for search engine news blog
• 2006: Top 5 series
• 2006: Web Search Trends
• 2007: Search in Search - vertical search
Panda today
Pandia anno 2008• 10,000 daily visitors
• 800,000 page views per month
• 3200 subscribers to web feed
• 9000 subscribers to the Pandia Post newsletter
• Approx 140,000 inbound links
Who are we?• Susanne and Per have full daytime
jobs.
• Susanne is a learning technology adviser at the University of Oslo
• Per is Director of Analysis and Strategic Development at the Research Council of Norway
Pandia’s corporate headquarters, Oslo, Norway
How do we cope?• It didn’t happen overnight
• Weekend sessions
• Continuous news surveillance
• Go to search engine marketing conferences
• Holiday sessions
Essential Pandia Pages
• Search Engine News
• All-in-one collection of search tools
• Collection of search oriented sites and resources
• Web search tutorial
• Search engine marketing tutorial
• Newsfinder