Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
I was searching through the E-prints in Library and Information Science (E-LIS) web site for search related articles over the past year, and came across some articles that weren’t highly cited, but provide some interesting perspectives on Google Scholar, and on research involving user behavior on the web and how to understand it better. Google … Read more
You’re walking along Pier 39 in San Francisco, and you decide that what you see in front of you would make an excellent photo. You pull out your camera phone, point it in the direction of your view of the fog rolling down the City, from the Pier. Snapping the shot, you tell your phone … Read more
Alexa collects and displays a fair amount of information about web sites, though I’ve always wondered about the value of that information because it appears to only collect information from people who have an Alexa Toolbar installed on their browser. A new patent, granted to Alexa this morning but originally filed back in 1999, describes … Read more
I mostly use bloglines to read RSS feeds, though I’ve been seeing some opinions from others on different feed readers, including Peter Da Vanzo’s recent endorsement of Google Reader. A new Microsoft study, prepared for CHI2007, looks at the features and attributes of different feed readers based upon interviews with 34 participants, who described how … Read more
Humans aren’t the only ones who submit queries through search engines. There are individuals and organizations that use search agents to find and collect information through search engines, focusing upon a number of different informational needs including search augmentation services that help searchers as they surf the web, and agents used by recommendation sites, metasearch … Read more