Matt Cutts has spoken about what the change (not update, actually called “Vince”) on the Google search engine. The main points to take away imho: “”Inside of Google, at least inside the search ranking team, we don’t really think about brands. We think about words like[...]
Posts Tagged ‘search engine’
March 3rd, 2009 - 5:19 pm § in Tutorials
What’s the “scientific method”?
There is confusion sometimes as to what “science” is. For something to be science, the “scientific method” needs to be applied to it. (The diagram shows the different steps involved in this). This is a brief overview of it, if you want to delve into the philosophi[...]
February 26th, 2009 - 10:59 pm § in Information retrieval, SEO & marketing
Long-tail is rubbish!
I got to the Hitwise report through a link from Dave to a post on Search Engine Land written by Matt McGee (convoluted journey I know). I liked the post because I have tons of papers and things to read each day and the concise writeup pleased me greatly. The report (isn’t that long [...]
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[...]
February 23rd, 2009 - 10:07 am § in Inspirations, Search engines
Frowning at Google
I am as many of you will know a Google supporter because I think that they’re always developing new and interesting things, and that they write good papers too. I like their search engine, and I’ve followed them since the beginning. I use other search engines too like Yahoo for example[...]
January 30th, 2009 - 10:29 am § in Ranking algorithms, Uncategorized
The RankMass crawler
The paper entitled “RankMass Crawler: A Crawler with High Personalized PageRank Coverage Guarantee” (Cho, Schonfeld, University of California) deals with the important topic of how many pages should be collected to cover most of the web, and how to ensure that important documents are [...]
