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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘search engine’
June 10th, 2009 - 2:42 pm § in Guest posts
SEO Copywriting is Dead! Here’s Proof…
I’m happy to publish a nice guest post from copywriter Glenn Murray who has a bunch to say about copy and he is well versed in this area so I hope that you join in the conversation and add your 2 from whichever currency. Over to Glenn… There’s a lot of talk around the traps, [...][...]
June 9th, 2009 - 12:19 am § in Search engines
Bing in less than 5mins
I don’t usually blog about things unless I feel I really have something to add to the current discussion and in the case of Bing I don’t think I do. I haven’t had much time to play with Bing and evaluate it as it deserves to be, so the following is a short list of [...][...]
June 6th, 2009 - 11:03 am § in Inspirations
My Ruud interview
Ruud Hein is famed for giving interviews and I was pretty flattered to be asked to answer some of his questions. You can read over at Search Engine People if you like. Tweet This PostRelated Posts:Duck Duck Go!The new SEO: Visibility strategistWho do we need in search?10 papers on personalization (P[...]
June 5th, 2009 - 4:37 pm § in Search engines
Inbenta announces New “Semantic Site Search” engine
Just a heads-up: “Inbenta announces the launch of “Semantic Site Search”, a new service (SaaS-based) that provides search to any website within the cloud computing. After four years of development (project codename: voldemort), this search service includes Semantic Search capabilit[...]
May 25th, 2009 - 1:36 pm § in Tutorials
How does search engine personalisation work?
Search engines are personalising their results and not only in the SERPS but also in the paid ads arena and for things like Google alerts for example. It’s important to understand why personalisation is difficult, how it works and what future directions are. Without this information it’s[...]
May 20th, 2009 - 2:37 pm § in Tutorials
Knowledgebase vs Database
With the launch of WolframAlpha the mainstream public has been exposed to new term, and a new concepts: “Knowledgebase” and “knowledge engine”. There has been an awful lot of confusion over this, and the multiple posts comparing WolframAlpha to Google are a testimony to this.[...]
May 18th, 2009 - 12:46 pm § in Tutorials
Make a web spider
I’m often asked how to make a spider to crawl the web, or a specific site, a directory, look for hubs, and so on. They’re not hard to make and there are a ton load of them out there. There is really no need to reinvent the wheel and write a load of other ones [...][...]
