There is a lot of vocab misuse around the web, and especially in webdesign, online marketing and other areas. This does not usually disturb me in any way and I couldn’t care less, but recently it has caused me hassle, so I am having a big rant about it. Some may take it personally, but [...][...]
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Short Information Retrieval glossary
When you read papers or patents to do with information retrieval, sometimes the authors assume you know what some of the things they use are all about and don’t explain it. I have written a tutorial on the Search Engine Index, and also on Search Engine Spiders and Clustering. Those should[...]
January 13th, 2009 - 8:12 pm § in Uncategorized
Clickstream spam detected
Clickstream analysis is a basic form of metric used to determine how much traffic comes to a site and some analysts also look at the quality of the traffic using this metric. There is more research being done into clickstream analysis because it is littered with noise, has a very high dimensionali[...]
December 1st, 2008 - 9:59 pm § in Uncategorized
Why writing a search engine is hard
Anna Patterson, research Associate to the formal reasoning group at Stanford and ex-Googler, also head lady at the Cuil search engine explains why writing a search engine is hard at the ACM queue. Some main points: Building good search engines has never been done in a big group but in teams of 1 to [...]
November 28th, 2008 - 8:57 pm § in Uncategorized
Why I used Blogger
I’m often asked why I use blogger to host my blog, being a knowledgeable SEO person, and also a computer scientist. ”I should know better” is the main idea. I advocate using WordPress instead, and tell everyone else to do so when they ask me what they should use for their blog&[...]
