I’ve been catching up on all my reading these last couple of weeks and I particularly liked “From X-Rays to Silly Putty via Uranus: Serendipity and its Role in Web Search”. It’s by Paul André from Southampton University together with Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais from Micro[...]
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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 - 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[...]
December 9th, 2008 - 9:54 pm § in Uncategorized
LSI – No more!
With the help of some very cool Tweeters, I found some interesting facts about LSI and SEO. They are @dpn and @Mendicott. For a simple idea of what LSI/A is please read the wikipedia entry on it. The original paper is here. LSI was patented in 1988 by Scott Deerwester (doing humanitarian work n[...]
