ReadWriteWeb have posted screenshots of Wolfram Alpha in action. Do go and have a look, it’s great that you guys are all going to get to try it out soon as well. As you will see, it is not at all like Google, and I think that the happiest people in the world will be [...][...]
Posts Tagged ‘Search engines’
April 23rd, 2009 - 2:15 pm § in Search engines
Wolfram Alpha Rocks!
I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the webinar reserved for researchers that was given by Wolfram. Actually through my good colleague Chris Rines, I was able to get an invite! It was at 4am for me here in Oz but I really really wanted to see what all the fuss had [...][...]
April 12th, 2009 - 10:20 pm § in SEO & marketing
More LSI amusement
I wanted to get your opinion on how the Google algorithm actually works according to Leslie Rohde from “StomperNet”. He posted 2 videos, one about LSI and one about “Referential integrity”. “Warning – “Advanced” SEO Technique DOES NOT WORK” vi[...]
April 8th, 2009 - 12:46 pm § in SEO & marketing
Which SEO’s should not read IR or search papers
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[...]
April 8th, 2009 - 11:31 am § in Information retrieval, Tutorials
10 papers you need to read
This is a list of my top 10 freely available papers on the topic of information retrieval. You will notice that they are rather old, but the techniques used described and the findings are not always dated. Those that dated are important nonetheless because they provide a good foundation to under[...]
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[...]
April 1st, 2009 - 12:04 am § in Technology news
A case for online algorithms
This was my April fools post – the paper was autogenerated using SCIgen (who has fooled quite a few in the past). It uses hand-written context-free grammar to put the paper together. The link to the paper is temporary which is why it expired. The abstract is complete poppycock, it even con[...]
March 25th, 2009 - 10:39 pm § in Inspirations
Jeri Ellsworth
The woman in Technology that I want to draw attention to on Ada Lovelace day (I know I’m late) is Jeri Ellsworth. Her interests are “Home chip fabs, pinball machines, race car chassis design”. She is an electrical and mechanical engineer. I know nothing about this stuff and I[...]
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[...]
