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Paralleling the topic of yesterday's "humor as link-building" subject, today I've stumbled across a site called NetDisaster that will take a given URL and turn the page into a private battlefield for Martians, meteors and other untimely disasters....
The measurable risk of any particular SEO tactic is very hard to measure. After all, experimentation with successful sites in the SERPs is not only dangerous, but also expensive and time-consuming, while avoiding risks by using precautionary measures is virtually costless.Si...
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst houses a project called the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. The project is focused on solving many of the IR problems in web search and document collection search. Some of the more fascina...
EGOL from SEOChat asked me to blog on the subject of the "most valuable link". The MVL award is something I think I'll blog on monthly and perhaps give...
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In reference to a thread at SEOChat on the anatomy of a good keyword by Robert Paulson, I have deleted the specific terms out of one of my own keyword spreadsheets and am offering it for download. You're welcome to re-use this a...
These guys are ripe for acquisition. Clusterizer, who operates the technology behind the iBoogie clustering meta-search engine, has a terrific description of the clustering process an...
Two excellent reports were released over the past week, highlighting growth and trends in the worldwide Internet adoption and growth market, Europe in particular. The first report, from E-consultancy is called the ...
Fellow UW graduate, Heidi Adkinson runs two very relevant websites on the subject of her Master's thesis - e-commerce research. The sites both offer some very good information on the subject of web design and...
A great source for content, especially images & tools is the Creative Commons licensing website. The search system enables you to find the content you're seeking and also provides a great outlet for developers looki...
A new thread at SEW explores the concept and value of a link over time. Does a long-standing link constitute trust or laziness? Are many new links to a site a sign of its current popularit...
Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto's Modern Information Retrieval is considered the standard for Information Retrieval courses at Universites like Berkley, U Mass & Stanford. The book is surprisingly easy to read, even if some sections ...
What is an ontology? In case you're disinclined to follow the link, I've quoted Wikipedia's excellent article on the subject: In computer science, an ontology...
On October 21, 2004, Jeff Dean of Google gave a taped speech to the University of Washington's Computer Science department. Lucky for us, the UW put this ~55 minute speech on some of the more technical aspe...
It was an incredible event. For me, this was not only my first SES conference, but my first professional conference in the search industry. It was fantastic to see so many people that I only knew from their avatars and forum names. I believe the event helps to give a real sense of the S...