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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...
Too Busy to Blog
This conference is insane. I'm literally too busy to share information with you. I have fantastic notes from every session, and Si is reporting from a completely seperate set of sessions - together we're trying to cover as much as possible in a meaningful way.The events of today includ...
Deep Insight into the Corporate Culture & Business Strategy of Google
John Heilemann, who has been writing about companies in Silicon Valley for the last ten years, has one of the most comprehensive, critical & engaging pieces on the corporat...
David Naylor - A Great Perspective
David Naylor, an SEO based in the UK (of which there are quite a few it seems), has a terrific, if brief blog on which he writes - Changing Face...
Keyword Phrases that Bring Conversions
A report from emarketer today - Search Query Keyword Insight - details the results of some research over the pas...
Disambiguation & Homographs in Search
For many designers & graphic artists, a first experience with disambiguation will be during an image search at a site like Getty One or Corbis. We'll conduct a search for "marine" and a pag...