The Semantic Web
An article from the Scientific American, The Semantic Web, describes several examples of how semantic understanding by computers will help to revolutionize the utility of technology in...
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Web Standards & W3C Guidelines
Web standards and code validation can often be a boring subject in the SEO and web development world. It's not fun to hack through the W3C's validation complaints about missing alt tags, improperly entered text symbols and incomplete div tags, but it is neccessary....
New Search Technology Forum @ SEOChat
The nice folks at SEOChat have made yours truly the moderator for a new section - the Search Technologies Forum. The description for this new area is: ...
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'...
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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...
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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...
Indexing Summit at SES NYC
At the end fo February, representatives from all four of the major search engines - Ask, Yahoo!, MSN & Google - will be attending a conference on the topic of search engine indexing. A fantastic ...
Understanding Fractal Summarization
A terrific paper by Christopher Yang & Fu Lee Wang of the Chinese University in Hong Kong that was mentioned by Orion in a threa...
Steve Krug's Advanced Common Sense
One of the first requirements for anyone considering building or operating a website should be Steve Krug's miraculous book - Don't Make Me Think. This short, 3-hour read has been next to my...
Link-Content & Link-Clustering Conjectures
In a paper titled, Lexical and Semantic Clustering by Web Links, Filippo Menczer of the Dept. of Computer Science at Indiana University, sets out...
Using Cluster-Based Engines to Discover Keywords & Themes
A list of clustering search engines can be used to help understand how the search engines are currently perceiving the links & topical nature of you...