Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
There may be more than one URL for a single page on a website, which can cause problems when a search engine attempts to crawl and index pages on that site. If the search engine can figure out some rules on how these different versions of URLs for a page come about, and identify only … Read more
I posted on Tuesday about the use of Topic Familiarity in Reranking Search Results. Stephen Pitts, of Build a Better Website asked if I thought the patent application being discussed in that post had anything to do with personalized search. My response was that the inventors listed in the document stated within it that they … Read more
Unfamiliar with a topic, and want to find a simple page on a subject – one that didn’t require background reading or knowledge to understand the page? More familiar with that subject, and you want to find an advanced page on the web? Could a search engine help you find pages and rerank them based … Read more
A good percentage of all searches upon the major search engines involve people looking for something in a specific geographic location. Understanding how search engines look for and extract geographic information on web sites, and handle that information about locations, and present it to searchers is one of the most important and possibly fastest growing … Read more
Rand, over at 14th Colony asked about the ruling against Google by the Court of First Instance in Brussels (Belgium), and its translation into English. I found a copy of the ruling at ChillingEffects.org in an image pdf file. I’ve transcribed part of it which details the ruling of the Court in English. Some interesting … Read more