Readers know that we sold Search Engine Stategies (the trade show) to Incisive Media in July 2005. The three great assets of the show were the brand name, the companion editorial Web site (SearchEngineWatch.com) and of course the editorial director of both the show and the site, Danny Sullivan.

Now Danny and his band of SESers have bolted Incisive Media and its Search properties to SearchEngineLand.Com and a related trade show.

I am not sure how the people at Incisive managed to lose Danny? But they certainly lost him and perhaps a golden franchise. However this post is not about questioning Incisive. I too have critics and know that it is easy to take shots at management from afar when all the inside facts are not known.

Perhaps the best recap of the "Danny-exit" was written today by Nicki Scevak. Interstingly Nicki worked for me at two venues over the years: first at the erstwhile Australia.internet.com and then at JupiterResearch. Now Nicki appears to be an astute blogger.