Tag Archives: Future

  • 1

Life is just starting, so they say

Category:Personal Tags : 

So as of yesterday I belong to the ‘old’ people, at least that is what some (young) people are trying to make me believe. Even my youngest daughter sang and laughed “lalala 40! papa!”, though I’m sure she didn’t mean to mock me ;).

Anyway, as you may have noticed I turned 40 yesterday. And as you may know at birthdays people congratulate you. I can honestly say, because of Social, I have never had this many people congratulating me for my birthday. There were so many I couldn’t reply to each one of them. So thank you all for that!

Now, some may say I’m old, but others say life is just starting when you turn 40. So for me this is apparently a beginning of new life! And in a way that makes sense. I am working on a lot of plans at the moment, aiming to get them going as quickly as possible. And to underline that I wrote a post yesterday on State of Search where I describe how I got where I am now and what lies ahead, both for me as the industry as a whole.

Read it, and if you like it, share it 😉


  • 0

The future of search, in Dutch, my presentation at Emerce Travel 2010

Category:speaking Tags : 

Today at the Emerce Travel Event 2010 I spoke about the future of search (in Dutch). I talked about Universal Search, how search engines are trying to grab the user intent and how you should handle that. It went really well and I was surprised about how many people showed up. It was standing room only and people were actually standing outside of the room listening to what I had to say, that was kinda cool ;).

Here’s my presentation on Slideshare:


  • 4

I got interviewed (in Dutch ;) ) on the future of Search

Category:Interview Tags : 

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at the B2B Marketing Forum on the changes we are seeing with the SERPS and how we should act on it. The subject was all about the future, where are the search engines going. After that session I got interviewed by a Dutch people search engine, 123 people. You can find the interview below. They also wrote out the entire interview here. The interview is in Dutch so if you want to understand it and are not Dutch, here’s te version which is translated using Google Translate (which has its usual quality so you are warned…).


Short bio

* Highly sought-after professional keynote speaker, trainer and strategist
* Awarded European Search Personality 2015
* More than 15 years of web experience
* Award winning consultant, trainer and professional speaker
* Founder of State of Digital
* Longer bio here