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CIIR at U Mass. - Amherst

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst houses a project called the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. The project is focused on solving many of the IR problems in web search and document collection search. Some of the more fascina...

Most Valuable Link Award

EGOL from SEOChat asked me to blog on the subject of the "most valuable link". The MVL award is something I think I'll blog on monthly and perhaps give...

Keyword Spreadsheet

In reference to a thread at SEOChat on the anatomy of a good keyword by Robert Paulson, I have deleted the specific terms out of one of my own keyword spreadsheets and am offering it for download. You're welcome to re-use this a...

Clusterizer & iBoogie Web Search

These guys are ripe for acquisition. Clusterizer, who operates the technology behind the iBoogie clustering meta-search engine, has a terrific description of the clustering process an...

Recent Worldwide Internet Use Statistics

Two excellent reports were released over the past week, highlighting growth and trends in the worldwide Internet adoption and growth market, Europe in particular. The first report, from E-consultancy is called the ...

Two Good Resources - Info Architecture & Web Design

Fellow UW graduate, Heidi Adkinson runs two very relevant websites on the subject of her Master's thesis - e-commerce research. The sites both offer some very good information on the subject of web design and...

Content Sourcing with Creative Commons

A great source for content, especially images & tools is the Creative Commons licensing website. The search system enables you to find the content you're seeking and also provides a great outlet for developers looki...

Temporal Links

A new thread at SEW explores the concept and value of a link over time. Does a long-standing link constitute trust or laziness? Are many new links to a site a sign of its current popularit...

Modern Information Retrieval by Baeza-Yates

Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto's Modern Information Retrieval is considered the standard for Information Retrieval courses at Universites like Berkley, U Mass & Stanford. The book is surprisingly easy to read, even if some sections ...

SWOOP - An Ontology Browser

What is an ontology? In case you're disinclined to follow the link, I've quoted Wikipedia's excellent article on the subject: In computer science, an ontology...

Jeff Dean of Google Speaks to UW

On October 21, 2004, Jeff Dean of Google gave a taped speech to the University of Washington's Computer Science department. Lucky for us, the UW put this ~55 minute speech on some of the more technical aspe...

SES Conference NYC 2005

It was an incredible event. For me, this was not only my first SES conference, but my first professional conference in the search industry. It was fantastic to see so many people that I only knew from their avatars and forum names. I believe the event helps to give a real sense of the S...