Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Yahoo! has a history of looking for and acquiring companies and their technology and hiring employees from those businesses. I focused upon the most recent companies with this post and will follow up soon with the rest that I can uncover. Here are several Yahoo acquisitions since October 2003: 3721 Network Software Co. 3721 Network … Read more
A patent application published this morning doesn’t involve ESP but attempts to anticipate what searchers are looking for. In addition, the document has the names of some prominent Google employees on it. Anticipated query generation and processing in a search engine United States Patent Application 20050283468 Published: December 22, 2005 Filed: June 22, 2004 This … Read more
What is Google TextRank? One of the challenges of the Google Book Search project has been to find a way to index all of the books included within the book search project. We don’t know the details of the technology used to index those books. However, some research uncovers interesting information. This November, a post … Read more
With all of the recent acquisitions by Yahoo! and Google, I decided to take a closer look at some Google Acquisitions. I’m glad I did. I came across a couple of papers I hadn’t seen before and learned a little more about some of Google’s employees that I didn’t know. Many of the Google acquisitions … Read more
There are many different approaches you can take when developing the content for a website. An interesting article from User Interface Engineering describes a method inspired by the Inuit. The Inuit creates works of art that often resemble people out of stones near where they are making these statues. These markers can tell later viewers … Read more