Search Engine Tigers

As I mentioned previously, Danny Sullivan’s new company announced that they were going to be running a local version of their new SMX conference series in Denver in September, following on from the one day SES conference that was held there last year. I mentioned that I’d noticed that there was no SES local scheduled for this year, so the SMX conference was filling that gap. Today I noticed that a link for SES local has gone up on their website, in the list of upcoming conferences, with a conference listed for Denver in September this year, but as yet no specifics bar the phrase

“Returns to Denver September 2007″

So what does this mean? Are we going to have dueling conferences in Denver in September? Presenters and attendees forced to make a choice between one or the other? Will one follow the other? Will they be at different ends of the month? Or is is just simply that that page was created at some point in the past with the assumption that there was going to be a repeat conference, and someone pulled the wrong version of the html out of the repository?

It’s most likely the latter, given that I don’t see there being head to head conference competition, or at least not at this point, while people are still trying to get along, and Danny is involved with SES conference organization (at least through SES-SJ in August). The other big giveaway? At the bottom of the SES pages they list all of the cities that they’re having conferences in… no sign of Denver there.

* Toronto * Tokyo * London * San Jose * Chicago * New York * Munich * Paris * Miami * Dallas *

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