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Barry Schwartz (technologist)

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Barry Schwartz (right) talking with Danny Sullivan (left) on stage at the keynote of Search Engine Strategies 2006

Barry Schwartz (born 1980) is the editor of the Search Engine Roundtable, an online news site covering topics and tips from search engines. He also is the CEO of RustyBrick, Inc., a New York based web development company. Barry also is the news editor at Search Engine Land, search engine news blog launched by Danny Sullivan (technologist) on December 11, 2006. Before that, Barry was the former news editor at Search Engine Watch. Barry moderates online and offline panels at Search Engine Watch, Cre8asite Forums and WebmasterWorld's PubCon. He hosts a popular podcast at WebmasterRadio.FM named the Search Pulse.

Schwartz was born and grew up in Suffern, New York. He still lives and works in the Suffern, New York area. He graduated from City University of New York - Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business, with Summa Cum Laude honors.

Barry incorporated his business, RustyBrick, with his brother, Ronnie Schwartz, in 1999. He started the Search Engine Roundtable in December of 2003, launched Search Engine Land on December 11, 2006 with Danny Sullivan.

Schwartz proposed to his wife by being the first to use a search engine during the wedding proposal. They currently live in New York, near where Barry grew up.

Publications

Barry has been published in many industry wide publications including Search Engine Watch, hundreds of times, News.com, Publish.com, SEMPO, Web Pro News Interview & quoted several dozen times by Web Pro News, ClickZ, Search Engine Watch about my position there, ZDNet.com, EConsultancy.com and many more. Barry has been quoted extensively in the book "Building Your Business with Google For Dummies" by Wiley Publishing and has been featured in SitePoint’s "The Search Engine Marketing Kit". Barry's company published a widely sourced Search Engine Relevancy Survey named the The Search Engine Relevancy Challenge, used by Yahoo! and other search engines as a point of reference.

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