Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
At SIGIR 2007, one of the workshops held at the July Conference in Amsterdam was on Web Information Seeking and Interaction. Web information seeking and interaction involves looking at the way that searchers interact with Web-based content and applications when they are looking for something. The conference covered a wide range of research, and I … Read more
Fact extraction is growing as a method that search engines can use to identify and understand what pages on the website are about and to collect facts about document subjects and answer questions posed by people submitting queries to a search engine. A recent paper from Google provides a nice overview of some methods being … Read more
A couple of months ago, the Wall Street Journal provided some speculation about a Google phone in an article titled Google Pushes Tailored Phones To Win Lucrative Ad Market. It’s difficult to tell how much is speculation, but Google CEO Eric Schmidt has gone on record as saying that he believes that consumers will watch … Read more
A profile-based approach to individual site searches, and group personalization (to protect individual privacy), is explored in two related patent applications from Google, one from this week, and one from last week. The first patent application involves Google’s free site search that a site owner can add to their site, and may enable visitors to … Read more
How might a voice search engine learn new words that have been introduced into popular speech, such as “da shiznet,” and learn and understand different pronunciations of words, such as might be found in spoken language based upon regional differences? A newly published patent filing from Google provides some hints. Last April, Google was granted … Read more