SWOOP - An Ontology Browser
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...
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Jeff Dean of Google Speaks to UW
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...
SES Conference NYC 2005
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...
Too Busy to Blog
This conference is insane. I'm literally too busy to share information with you. I have fantastic notes from every session, and Si is reporting from a completely seperate set of sessions - together we're trying to cover as much as possible in a meaningful way.The events of today includ...
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Deep Insight into the Corporate Culture & Business Strategy of Google
John Heilemann, who has been writing about companies in Silicon Valley for the last ten years, has one of the most comprehensive, critical & engaging pieces on the corporat...
David Naylor - A Great Perspective
David Naylor, an SEO based in the UK (of which there are quite a few it seems), has a terrific, if brief blog on which he writes - Changing Face...
Keyword Phrases that Bring Conversions
A report from emarketer today - Search Query Keyword Insight - details the results of some research over the pas...
Disambiguation & Homographs in Search
For many designers & graphic artists, a first experience with disambiguation will be during an image search at a site like Getty One or Corbis. We'll conduct a search for "marine" and a pag...
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Approaching the End of the PageRank Era
Even a great technological innovation like PageRank will eventually be supplanted. For a web information retreival model, PR has already had a remarkable long life, yet its downfall has been predicted across the web by some of the very best in the industry. Here'...
The Speed of Link Growth
Many have surmised that un-natural link building is reponsible for ranking issues. This may very well be true, as much of the evidence I've been able to review on the issue of sites in Google's sandbox have displayed similiar features. Links have typically come in fast and furious at...
A Glossary of Information Retrieval Terminology
Many times when reading through complex threads, research papers or even blogs by some of the more advanced SEOs in the industry, I get lost in the meaning of terms and an entire paragraph or document can be lost to my ignorance. Luckily, great resources like the...
What can WordNet be used for?
WordNet is a lexical database (a collection of words) that has been used by major search engines and IR research projects for many years. The database can be accessed through Princeton University's website and even ...
Child Inheritance at Google
An incredibly revealing post on some theories about Google's changes over the past 12 months was first noted by TW. However, the quantity and quality of information p...
SEO Links from Del.icio.us
I've blogged previously on the subject of Del.icio.us, but this time I want to examine our own, specific field and the links that spring up from the tagging community. Del.icio.us has a large base of users, yet few of these issue SEO tags...