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Search Engine Strategies New York Parties

Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend SES NY this year. Although after last year’s 4 days of attending panels, blogging, interviews and drinking like a fish (that’s a bit of an overstatement), my liver will be thanking me. The major parties I attended last year were the Ask Jeeves, Yahoo 10 Year Anniversary, and Google After Hours parties. Ask Jeeves was a blast because I had a chance to meet and interview American Idol Superstar William Hung (although the underdeveloped rib-cage exposing dancing teenage girls in the lounge area was a bit weird) .

The Yahoo party was awesome and I had the chance to talk a bit with Andy Beal, Jeremy Zawodny, Tara, and Chris Knowles of Topix.net. At the Google party I got a bit tipsy and offended some spywear people by addressing them during a group conversation in not such a polite way (although I was not specifically referring to their mothers). Even at the conference one of the booths on the top floor had a keg of Samuel Adams tapped, which led me to doing a quick interview that earned me an extra pint.

From the list of parties which have been made public to date, the drinking rounds at SES NY 2006 seem a bit tame. Perhaps this is part of the ValleyWag effect, as some search companies may want to keep tabs on the flow of liquor which led to a fight last year by two search employees over a girl that I almost had to step into and break up with my amazing Aikido powers.

Joseph Morin has the lowdown on SES NY Parties for 2006:

Monday February 27th 2006

Ask.com

7pm-11pm

Ask.com presents the “Code Red” party:

Location: Club LQ

511 Lexington Ave. @48th

Tuesday February 28th 2006

IM Live

Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Networking Cocktail Reception

Location: Expo Hall

Hilton Hotel

Wednesday March 1st 2006

Yahoo Search Marketing

Time: 12:45pm - 1:45pm

Networking Lunch

Location: Nassau Room

Hilton Hotel

If anyone has word on other parties around New York sponsored by the search engines, please feel free to post them below.