Posts Tagged ‘search engine’

January 14th, 2010 - 2:12 pm § in Search engines, Social networks

Who do we need in search?

The San Francisco Chronicle has an article out this week entitled “Social science meets computer science at Yahoo!”. It’s about how Yahoo have been hiring “highly credentialed cognitive psychologists, economists and ethnographers from top universities around the world”[...]

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 Micro[...]

October 6th, 2009 - 3:18 pm § in Search engines

Can gibberish rank? Why Certainly.

We could argue until the cows came home as which 2 main elements of SEO were the core components. I’ll cut to the chase and ask you to consider content and links alone this time round. They are (arguably) the most important two variables present in the SEO diagram at this time. It makes sense[...]

September 4th, 2009 - 8:45 am § in SEO & marketing

The end of SEO: an interview

Fran Molloy of the Nett# magazine interviewed both myself, Kate Gamble and Glenn Murray a little while ago. The interview has been published and is available for you to read now. It’s called “The end of search engine optimisation”, I hope you find it interesting. Do you think [...]

August 20th, 2009 - 1:09 am § in Information retrieval

Something worth seeing 8)

There is no point having a wonderful system if nobody else can use it (unless you’ve made it just for yourself). If you go to the theatre to see a fabulous play and that half the time you can’t see the actors because of bad lighting or because the props are in the way, then [...][...]

July 18th, 2009 - 5:44 pm § in Information retrieval

Assisted search

There’s a post over at Search Engine Land by Kim Krause Berg which highlights recent research being done in search and use behaviour. It’s a nice short summary, very accessible and quotes some pretty authoritative sources such as Jim Jansen for example. I wanted to post about this becau[...]

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[...]

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[...]





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