Most Valuable Link Award
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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Group Intelligence & Search Tracking
The prediction power of a group is frighteningly accurate. Get a large number of individuals together and ask them to vote on the answer to a question and (as long as it has nothing to do with politics) you've got a nearly foolproof answering system. This group int...
Keyword Spreadsheet
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...
Craigslist & the Power of a Free Community
Craig Newmark has put together one of the most revolutionary, popular and well-thought out communities on the web. It's 1996 style design has not inhibited growth, but rather allowed the community to flourish and the largely free model has created a competitor fo...
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Clusterizer & iBoogie Web Search
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...
Recent Worldwide Internet Use Statistics
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 ...
Two Good Resources - Info Architecture & Web Design
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...
Content Sourcing with Creative Commons
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...
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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 ...
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...
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...
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...