Should there be a Google.us for the United States?
Ian (who has now been the subject of 3 posts at SEOmoz) McAnerin asks at SEW if Google should have a .us domain for United States based searches. After all, there is a Google regio...
Search Engines
Understanding how search engines work, Google in particular, is important when working in SEO. The basics of crawling and indexing are amazingly useful to understand if you want to rank your own content.
Additionally, Google updates its algorithm several times a year. Understanding the more significant updates, and how they work, can help you to craft content and SEO strategies that are up-to-date.
We've written extensively about how search engines work, and included some of the top resources here. You can also browse the latest posts on search engines from the Moz blog below.
How Search Engines Work : New to SEO? Start with the basics of how search engines operate with our free beginner's guide.
Search Engine Ranking and Visibility : Learn the fundamentals of how search engines rank content on search engine result pages.
Google Algorithm Update History : A complete history of Google algorithm updates since 2000. This includes important links and references for understanding how Google works.
How Search Engines Value Links : Search engines work off a number of signals, but two of the most important are content and links. In this video, Rand Fishkin explains the basics of link evaluation.
MozCast : Is Google updating it's algorithm as we speak? MozCast is the Google algorithm weather report, so you can see how much Google results are changing each day.
Most Recent Articles on Search Engines
Spam Recognition Guidelines from Eval.Google
The buzz from Henk Van Ess' exposure of Google's evaluation continues to expand, and Henk himself has posted a great deal more information. A visit to SearchBistro is highly encouraged. Of specific note is t...
Let's Talk about Fractals
Dr. Garcia posted a thread on SEW today showcasing a great collection of resources on the subject of fractals in information ...
More Papers Written by Googlers
Google has a new, expanded list of papers and projects written by their workers online. The repository is growing quite large and for obvious reasons, Google isn't showing nearly all of them. Their ability to continue to recrui...
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Sign the 302 Hijacking Petition
Google has been notorious over the last 2 years for refusing (or being unable) to fix the issue of page hijacking via the 302 bug. Darren Ward, who founded SEOChat, has created an online petit...
Understanding Stemming
Xan Porter has an excellent blog entry on the subject of stemming in search engine indices. The article points to a terrific trove of resources on stemming, how it is performed a...
Fractals & Semantics - A Great Paper from Dr. Garcia
Dr. Garcia, known on the forums as Orion, has written what will surely become one of the most linked to documents in the SEO world over the next few days. The article - ...
Google Maps - Now with Satellite Images
Google's Maps - a very functional, often inaccurate mapping program is now using the satellite images from Keyhole, acquired last year by Google, to supplement their offerings. To the right, I've added a map of the Lake Uni...
Google Patent on Historical Data
Greg Boser (WebGuerilla) calls the just released Google patent (US Patent Application ...
CIIR at U Mass. - Amherst
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...
Temporal Links
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...
Modern Information Retrieval by Baeza-Yates
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 ...
IR Tools to Play with
Normally, I would endeavor to research the tools I present a little more before sharing, but I've been having so much fun exploring this list that I had to present it (that, and I'm almost out of minutes left in the day). KDNuggets, a data mining & knowledge dicsovery guide website has ...
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...