Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Every business has the potential to gather an incredible amount of data, and a business like Yahoo can be an extreme case. What kinds of things can you do with that data? Where do you even begin? What interesting patterms might you find in very large databases? How can that data be used within your … Read more
If you search for “world series,” chances are that you want to either find out something about buying tickets for the 2007 world series or learning something about the 2006 World Series. It’s less likely that you would be trying to find out about an older “world series.” Some queries can be tied to specific … Read more
The “World Wide Web of Facts” is the subject of a couple of papers from a Google researcher, Marius Pasca. Being able to extract class attributes for facts from such a Web of facts may provide many benefits to several people. The latest of the papers, Organizing and Searching the World Wide Web of Facts … Read more
If, like me, you find yourself interested in how search engines work, the usability of search engines can be a fascinating topic. Here are some recent papers and a set of course notes from people at Google On Usability Relevance and User Satisfaction A couple of the aims of a search engine are to provide … Read more
Recently Robert Scoble presented a few videos on the topic of Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years. It was a controversial topic, and generated some signficant and emotional responses, such as the following two posts from Rand Fiskin and Danny Sullivan. I Used to Respect Robert Scoble’s … Read more