There is no point having a wonderful system if nobody else can use it (unless you’ve made it just for yourself). If you go to the theatre to see a fabulous play and that half the time you can’t see the actors because of bad lighting or because the props are in the way, then [...][...]
Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’
June 1st, 2009 - 5:41 pm § in Inspirations, SEO & marketing
Can you get “Kuniaki Nozoe” to #1?
Greenpeace are launching a campaign to bring more awareness to the climate issues we face. Interestingly enough, it involves all you SEO’s out there. “The Cool IT Challenge ranks the CEOs of top IT companies on their climate leadership, then asks techies to bet on those most likely to i[...]
May 15th, 2009 - 1:12 pm § in Semantic web
Google semantic web
This is indeed an “I told you so” post. If you don’t recognise the logo above, then this is aimed at you Google have announced (12 May) that they are going to be using “Rich snippets”: “Rich Snippets give users convenient summary information about their search [...]
April 24th, 2009 - 6:48 pm § in TGIF
TGIF – ^5
Welcome to another edition of TGIF. I hope that the week has been enjoyable and that the less enjoyable bits were but a mere smudge on the horizon. I’m hearing lots of nice things about the weather on the other side of the world, what is this “Spring” you speak of? We just have a [[...]
April 17th, 2009 - 9:16 pm § in TGIF
TGIF – *<):o)
Welcome to another edition of TGIF. Here’s hoping you’ve had a good week and that you’re looking forward to the weekend despite that! Weekends are a time to do something different from the norm in my opinion. Try a new chocolate bar, go somewhere you’ve never been, buy a al[...]
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[...]
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 [...]
March 11th, 2009 - 3:29 pm § in Query and Cluster analysis, Search engines
Search engines to calculate implicit semantic relations
I came across a cool paper called ”Measuring the Similarity between Implicit Semantic Relations using Web Search Engines” by Bollegala, Matsuo and Ishizuka from the University of Tokyo (WSDM 09). It’s all about calculating the implicit semantic relatedness between word pairs us[...]
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 examp[...]
