Ranking algorithms are changing a great deal at the moment. Before, like HITS and PageRank they looked at how websites and pages were connected and used any information they could gather from those to use as variables. Nowadays we’re seeing research papers come out focusing on how the sema[...]
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New ranking algorithms
Tags: Folksonomy Systems;, Google, Graph-based ranking algorithm;, graph-based ranking algorithms;, Hannover, HITS algorithm;, Leibniz University Hannover;, online content;, PageRank, Ranking algorithms, ranking algorithms Ranking algorithms;, search engine, search engine results;, Search engines, search results;, Semantic web, semantic web features;, social media;, web search; 3 Comments
February 18th, 2009 - 12:50 pm § in Inspirations, SEO & marketing
SEO & Gardening
Back in the days of web 1.0, the role of the SEO was to get the site as high up as possible on the search engines. During the days of web 2.0, the role of the SEO has changed to include social media marketing also. As the SEO professional walks towards the future, his/her [...][...]
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February 2nd, 2009 - 11:05 am § in Blog research
How to build blog search
Readwriteweb posted an article about blog search and the best tools out there at the moment. I happened to come across a paper by Marti Hearst, Susan Dumais and Matthew Hurst called “What should blog search should look like”. It was presented at SSM 08 and is particularly interesting[...]
November 7th, 2008 - 1:20 am § in Uncategorized
The Future of Online Social Interactions: What to Expect in 2020
This discussion between Yahoo social media gurus, industry and academics took place at www2008 in Beijing. We all use social media, well most of use, certainly internet professionals. The younger generation are communicating very freely via this medium. It is not a fad, it is trend that will con[...]
Tags: ACM digital library;, Amsterdam, Avaya Labs.;, Beijing;, data mining;, David Ayman Shamma;, director of Collaborative Applications Research, Dorée Duncan Seligmann;, internet professionals;, news site;, online interaction;, Online Social Interactions;, search capabilities;, social media gurus;, social media;, social software;, Yahoo No Comments
November 6th, 2008 - 6:47 am § in Uncategorized
Ranking in social media
A cool paper caught my attention today:”A few bad votes too many?: towards robust ranking in social media” – it’s written by researchers from Emroy University and the Georgia institute of Technology (ACM SIGIR ’08). People vote all the time in social networks, be it Dig[...]
November 1st, 2008 - 12:06 am § in Uncategorized
Multilingual SEO
We often forget that English is not the only language online, and that many other nations who speak a multitude of different languages also have seo needs. According to Internet world stats the top 5 most spoken languages are distributed like so: 29.4% of users are English speakers, 18.9% Chinese, 8[...]
October 24th, 2008 - 9:39 pm § in Uncategorized
No SEO, no links – tons of traffic and #1 rankings!
we’re all trying to get traffic to our clients websites and maybe even our own, and we work so hard on SEO, social media, marketing techniques to try and achieve that. My boyfriend started a blog and within a few weeks he had over 500 people coming along. No PageRank, no links, no social media[...]
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October 21st, 2008 - 12:55 am § in Social networks
SISN toolkit for social media
Kicking off the week with a technical poster from Michigan University called “SISN: A Toolkit for Augmenting Expertise Sharing via Social Networks“. They’re developing a toolkit to support expertise sharing via social networks. The toolkit “SISN” (Seeking Inform[...]
October 3rd, 2008 - 1:05 am § in Uncategorized
Nexplore search engine
The Nexplore search engine has been released in beta. It’s fast, it’s busy, it’s fun and it’s pretty accurate. You can search the web, news, video, images, blogs and podcasts. It’s clearly aimed at social networking, it’s all very web 2.0. They say: “Ou[...]
Tags: Amazon;, authoritative site;, BBC;, cloud computing;, cloud-computing techniques;, CTO, Dion Hinchcliffe;, distributed search engine;, Google, hotel site;, image search, Internet Applications;, minimalistic landing search page;, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, RIA technologies;, search engine, social media sharing option;, social media;, social networking;, Stephen Arnold;, twitter, universal search;, well known authoritative site;, wiki search box; No Comments
September 30th, 2008 - 9:30 pm § in Uncategorized
Technorati report – part 5
This section is entitled “Brands Enter The Blogosphere“. Here is a summary of Technorati’s findings: They found that 4 in 5 bloggers mention brands either in a positive or negative light. This is very true in my opinion, I discuss Google, and other search engines after all. 1/3[...]
