There’s an awful lot of attention is being given to users and click data at the moment (despite the fact that analysing query logs dates back to 10 years ago). “Tailoring Click Models to User Goals” by Guo, Li, Faloutsos (Carnegie University) is from the 2009 workshop on Web Search[...]
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March 23rd, 2009 - 3:14 pm § in Information retrieval, Personalised search, Query and Cluster analysis
User goals and tailoring click models
User intent in real time
“Determining User’s Interest in Real Time” by Singh, Murthy and Gonsalves is a pretty interesting paper. It was presented at www 08. This is an interesting one for the SEO’s out there in particular. There are a lot of techniques that they use to determine how popular a term o[...]
February 5th, 2009 - 10:10 am § in Personalised search, Ranking algorithms
G patent: Autocompletion using ranked results
“Method and system for autocompletion using ranked results” is a patent granted to Google on the 3rd of February 2009. Their invention is to process query information received from a user prior to the user having indicated that the query is completed. So just as we have seen with the s[...]
