Today’s paper is all about website visitors and how to get the most out of the data you collect. A good example of what to look for and what can be identified is presented by Bruno Goncalves and Jose J. Ramasco who wrote a paper called “Towards the characterization of individual users[...]
Posts Tagged ‘surfer’
February 17th, 2009 - 11:58 am § in Website analytics/metrics
Classifying individual users w. web analytics
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 [...]
October 10th, 2008 - 1:23 am § in Uncategorized
The Random surfer becomes the Cautious surfer
An interesting paper: “Incorporating Trust into Web Search” written by Lan Nie Baoning Wu and Brian D. Davison from Lehigh University. This paper deals with the issue of spam, generated by pages being engineered to deceive the search engines. They say that ranking systems should ta[...]
