Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
If you have an interest in how Google addresses duplicate content on the Web, today’s been an interesting day. Google was granted a patent this morning that describes how Google might identify duplicate or near-duplicate web pages and decide which version to show in search results, and which ones to filter out. It’s a process … Read more
How does a search engine choose whether to show news items in web search results and when not to? If you live in Bealton, Virginia, chances are that you may not be too interested in news of a car crash in Brooklyn, New York, when searching for information about Brooklyn. If you’re from Brooklyn, and … Read more
Are large news agencies, with a wide scope of international coverage on multiple topics, with large numbers of reporters, and finely edited articles, better news sources than smaller and more local papers, or narrow niche blogs? A patent on ranking articles in Google News was granted this week that was originally filed in 2003. It … Read more
If you search for news at Google News, you’ve probably noticed that you can view news articles by date or by relevance. Many of the news articles that you find in Google News are from sources like wire services, where the information is shared amongst many newspapers. Reporters have the option of adding additional information, … Read more
Ever wonder how Google’s News Personalization works? The Google News Help section on Personalized News provides a lot of details, but a new paper from Google on the topic delves even deeper: Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering (pdf) In this paper we describe our approach to collaborative filtering for generating personalized recommendations for … Read more