Seo “Snake oil” refers to the bogus, misleading or fraudulent statements, “facts” and rumours spread in the SEO world. Traditionally “snake oil” refers to the bogus medicines sold by travelling doctors back in the day. SEO is not an exact science, so some either l[...]
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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[...]
January 16th, 2009 - 2:18 pm § in TGIF
TGIF – yippie
Welcome to another installment of TGIF. I am assuming that those of you who have had a very cold week will not want to hear about how hot and sunny it is here in Thailand so I won’t expand. I hope that you have all had a great week and that you picked up a [...][...]
November 14th, 2008 - 7:17 pm § in Uncategorized
Google Tech talk
On the Google channel on YouTube you’ll find a tech talk called “Knowledge-based Information Retrieval with Wikipedia” from October 31st 2008. It covers the limitations of search engines today. Documents and queries aren’t really understood at all, because they’re sti[...]
October 9th, 2008 - 5:06 am § in Uncategorized
What you missed at the Web 2.0 expo NY
If like me you missed the web 2.0 expo in NY, you can still watch the footage on YouTube, here are some of the talks I’m sad I missed: First up, Gary Vaynerchuk with “Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape” A few things he says in this talk: - Don’t do thin[...]
September 17th, 2008 - 1:03 am § in Uncategorized
GAUDI
Google have been working on GAUDI (Google audio indexing) for some time now, they incorporated their speech recognition technology into YouTube (transferring speech to text and then indexing it), and now there is a dedicated labs page for the project. You can have a play, searching for words in the [...]
