I wanted to talk about how computers deal with text, or rather how they deal with what text means. Todd Mintz posted about Google returning something other than the meta-description he had supplied for example. In an ideal world, there would be no need for meta-tags as machines could understand th[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
April 12th, 2009 - 10:20 pm § in SEO & marketing
More LSI amusement
I wanted to get your opinion on how the Google algorithm actually works according to Leslie Rohde from “StomperNet”. He posted 2 videos, one about LSI and one about “Referential integrity”. “Warning – “Advanced” SEO Technique DOES NOT WORK” vi[...]
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[...]
April 8th, 2009 - 12:46 pm § in SEO & marketing
Which SEO’s should not read IR or search papers
There has been a lot of chat in the past about whether SEO’s should read research papers around information retrieval and search. I think it is important, but perhaps not for all of the SEO’s out there. We don’t approach the business in the same way necessarily so for some it w[...]
April 6th, 2009 - 8:40 pm § in Information retrieval
Dr. Searcher and Mr. Browser
A really interesting method, partly for combating search result manipulation is described in “Dr. Searcher and Mr. Browser: A unified hyperlink-click graph” by Poblete (Uni. Pompeu Fabra), Castillo and Gionis (Yahoo). They worked on making a unified graph representation of the web includ[...]
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 20th, 2009 - 10:32 am § in Technology news
Call for Chrome Extensions
If you didn’t know yet, Google is calling for developers to make some extensions for their wonderful browser Chrome. I wholeheartedly support this movement and encourage all developers (or wannabe developers) to get busy making some. I will be listing all the extensions on this blog so if yo[...]
