The phone or rather the mobile device as a whole is the future of the web in many ways. It’s important for us to be able to access all of our information more than ever. Why? Because we’ve linked it all together and put a lot of our eggs on the web. I still keep [...][...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
August 14th, 2009 - 8:25 am § in TWIG
This week in Geekdom – R05$
Greetings, welcome to another edition of TWIG. I do hope that you have had an excellent week and that you have been able to play with some fun new gadgets. I’ve been eyeing up some Android phones and playing with all the different opportunities they present. I wish they came prettier, like th[...]
July 3rd, 2009 - 12:58 am § in Information retrieval
Microsoft and Information Retrieval
With the advent of Bing and the fact that it works really well, people are starting to take Microsoft seriously in the search domain. The previous offerings were not as strong as Google and with Google being such a behemoth in search, it was going to take a fair bit to even cause a tremor. [...][...]
June 12th, 2009 - 3:58 pm § in SEO & marketing
What Google owes you: nothing
There has been a fair bit of noise about Google owing an explanation about the recent announcement that they were considering nofollow from now on. The SEO community has called for further explanations and for information about PageRank and how Google functions. There is a feeling that people feel e[...]
June 12th, 2009 - 3:37 pm § in Ranking algorithms
Papers on PageRank you should read
PageRank is a standard and much discussed topic in SEO and while it is relevant, the methods and techniques discussed are often not. There is a lot of discussion around the original PageRank formula which is relevant, but there have been many changes and improvements since 1998. If you are an SEO w[...]
June 11th, 2009 - 2:04 pm § in Information retrieval
Extracting meaning from content: progress
I’m excited when I come across news like this because it’s my area of research. MIT covered this and presented TextRunner, a system capable of extracting meaning from billions of documents. It is not new, but it is working a lot better now which is why it’s exciting. It’s act[...]
