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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘search engine’
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 17th, 2009 - 10:46 am § in Information retrieval, Information/text analysis, Search engines, Tutorials
How does a search engine know what words mean?
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) belongs to the field of computational linguistics. It’s the research area dedicated to finding ways for machines to understand the meaning of words. More precisely, it’s about determining the word sense of a particular word in a context. This [...]
March 11th, 2009 - 3:29 pm § in Query and Cluster analysis, Search engines
Search engines to calculate implicit semantic relations
I came across a cool paper called ”Measuring the Similarity between Implicit Semantic Relations using Web Search Engines” by Bollegala, Matsuo and Ishizuka from the University of Tokyo (WSDM 09). It’s all about calculating the implicit semantic relatedness between word pairs us[...]
March 6th, 2009 - 11:53 am § in TGIF
TGIF – :8)
Welcome to another edition of TGIF. I hope that you have all enjoyed the week and that you have a cool weekend lined up. We’re into March now so the seasons are changing around, it’s autumn here and many of you are looking forward to spring. Book some holiday and give yourself some[...]
