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...
Dr. Garcia (orion of SEW) has posted another fantastic article covering the formulaic implementation of term weight. For many SEOs, this will be tough reading, and I admit to having trouble f...
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...
John Battelle has posted a little commentary on the subject of Google's new mural to be commissioned. I'm making this post simply because I feel it's so worthwhile to show this picture around - it has both the innocence of...
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'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...
Greg Boser (WebGuerilla) calls the just released Google patent (US Patent Application ...
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...
Two of SEW forums' members, xan & orion, are currently discussing the value of several formulas, techniques & ideas that orion had brought to the SEO community. If you're interested in reading the discussions, they may help enlighten you ...
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 ...
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 ...
Although it was mentioned at SES NYC by Matt Cutts and Craig Manning (of Google), this incredible revelation was still an "untested theory" until Damalo at SEOChat posted an incredible scoop - ...
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...