SEO has moved on in the last 5 years (considerably some might say) yet I still see the same skill requirements and the somewhat vague job descriptions in job listings. It isn’t easy to hire for the role of SEO if you’re not an expert in it, so word of mouth does go a long [...][...]
Posts Tagged ‘search engine’
December 7th, 2009 - 8:21 pm § in Search engines
10 papers on personalization (PSearch)
Google announced this week that they would start personalising search results, even for users that are not signed into a Google service at the time. It has caused a consistent flow of posts from the blogosphere and quite a lot of comments as well which show that there is a gap in knowledge at some [[...]
November 16th, 2009 - 4:35 pm § in Search engines
Serendipity on the Web
I’ve been catching up on all my reading these last couple of weeks and I particularly liked “From X-Rays to Silly Putty via Uranus: Serendipity and its Role in Web Search”. It’s by Paul André from Southampton University together with Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais from Micros[...]
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 - 3:37 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[...]
