After writing commercial blogs and such things, I really like that my blog doesn’t sell anything, or try to be anything more than what it is: A place for information about IR related topics which relate to SEO work, although not all SEO peeps will see it that way. I follow no guidelines, I don[...]
Posts Tagged ‘computing’
December 4th, 2008 - 8:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Internet 2 – in research since 1996
“Internet Evolution” (sponsored by IBM) have a very cool and information (and thorough) article on Internet 2. We talk a lot about web 2.0/3.0 but rarely about Internet 1.0/2.0. We need the Internet to work properly otherwise there is no www. The Internet is as Roger Smith puts it [...]
December 3rd, 2008 - 9:32 pm § in Uncategorized
The semantic web is not research as usual
Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) did a nice lecture called “Where Does It Break? Or: Why the Semantic Web is Not Just ‘Research as Usual’” – I think that there is a lot of confusion about what the semantic web is and how complicated the entire thing is.[...]
November 7th, 2008 - 9:40 pm § in Uncategorized
Using link structure to fight webspam
We are all familiar with webspam but not a lot of people know that it is a classification problem in computing. It’s hard to get all of the features right, and difficult to find an efficient classifier. There’s an interesting paper called “Improving Web Spam Classifiers Using [...]
November 3rd, 2008 - 3:42 am § in Uncategorized
IR people get a telling off – SEO’s take note
ECIR 2008 took place earlier this year and Nicholas Belkin did a keynote speech on the Grand Challenges in IR. This always feels to me a little bit like a telling off to the IR community on what we haven’t done properly or even considered as yet and where we’ve totally failed. ItR[...]
October 10th, 2008 - 9:30 pm § in TGIF
TGIF – fun facts
Welcome to Friday – to finish the week, here are interesting some facts from computing. The QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old. Macquariums are aquariums made from old macintosh computers. Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor traffic flow. David Brad[...]
October 10th, 2008 - 8:39 pm § in Uncategorized
Degree needed to be an SEO?
Jane Copland over at SEO Chicks wrote a thought provoking article on whether SEO degree programs are needed, and whether they would be of any help at all. I commented over there but I thought I’d give my take on it here. There was a post about it at SEW. I commented there too. I [...][...]
