I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the webinar reserved for researchers that was given by Wolfram. Actually through my good colleague Chris Rines, I was able to get an invite! It was at 4am for me here in Oz but I really really wanted to see what all the fuss had [...][...]
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April 9th, 2009 - 8:14 pm § in Search engines
Google’s algorithm evolution
What he said Tweet This PostRelated Posts:SEO Superheroes revealedRankings are not (that) importantFoursquare: almost there!Agile Marketing: embrace chaosThe new SEO: Visibility strategist[...]
March 24th, 2009 - 12:22 pm § in Search engines
Duck Duck Go!
Duck Duck Go is a new search engine that has quietly come along and raised eyebrows. In a good way. You know how we sigh and say “NASE” (not another search engine)? Well that’s exactly what I was thinking until I actually tried it. It’s not a Google killer, nor does i[...]
March 17th, 2009 - 10:46 am § in Information retrieval, Information/text analysis, Search engines, Tutorials
How does a search engine know what words mean?
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) belongs to the field of computational linguistics. It’s the research area dedicated to finding ways for machines to understand the meaning of words. More precisely, it’s about determining the word sense of a particular word in a context. This [...]
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[...]
March 11th, 2009 - 3:29 pm § in Query and Cluster analysis, Search engines
Search engines to calculate implicit semantic relations
I came across a cool paper called ”Measuring the Similarity between Implicit Semantic Relations using Web Search Engines” by Bollegala, Matsuo and Ishizuka from the University of Tokyo (WSDM 09). It’s all about calculating the implicit semantic relatedness between word pairs us[...]
March 6th, 2009 - 10:37 am § in Information retrieval, Search engines
Search engines and long queries
Since we talked about long-tail queries earlier in the week, I was inspired to look a little more at query analysis and how search engines could deal with the troublesome long-tail ones. You know when every time you see a pair of shoes you really like and it’s always the same designer? Well [...]
