Yes, it does already have a name and we’re already wondering how best to avoid it. Meta-tags have been rendered untrustworthy because of dishonest manipulation (honest manipulation is ok), especially the keywords tag which is pretty much useless now. Search engines depend on a wide variety of [...]
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 im[...]
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 res[...]
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 i[...]
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[...]
