I'm no longer seeing different results or different numbers of results for any searches I perform at Google with inanchor and allinanchor. I can't find any official reference to this change, but since they were working in January, my initial assumption is that BigDaddy caused the effect, which is why some folks can still see the allinanchor results on certain datacenters (or for certain phrases...
At the behest of an innocent poster (eKstreme), who surely had no idea what was in store once Bill got hold of the thread, asked for a reading list of papers and patents: ...
A group of students at Stanford has put together a paper (warning! PDF) detailing their estimates of Google, Yahoo! and MSN's index size. The figures below are what they came up with: Google - 53 billion pages Yahoo! - 8.4 billion...
Yahoo! has an (semi-) official User Interface Blog that discusses their developer library, explains their design tricks and helps folks to understand how to use their APIs to the fullest. It's a nifty idea for a site and the images that are ...
Larry & Sergey better watch their credit cards. Travis reports on Cre8asite today that Googlebot signed up as a new customer at an e-commerce site he manages. From the post: I d...
Mike Davidson, of Mike Industries (and CEO of NewsVine), has done some research into whether invalid code, nested tables and some other HTML factors can affect rankings at the search engines. My favorite bit: ...
Just a quick question for readers - how long did it take you from when you first learned about SEO to install the Google toolbar and check out PR on every site? And, conversely, how many weeks/months/years until you uninstalled it? For me, it was about 10 days into first learning about SEO back in 2002 that I installed the toolbar. It wasn't until July-August of 2004 that I finally got ...
I'm probably one of the only people who really like Andy's re-imagined Google homepage. It looks terrific and gives you a sense that they're a much bigger and more professional company. In all honesty, if the current pag...
Ummm.... Nothing? Reuters has some details: The slide, which at one stage wiped out more than $20 billion of Google's market value, illustrated the big risks investors have taken by buying the shares after a meteoric rise since their initial public offering in ...
Dr. Garcia has a great play-by-play on the IPAM Document Space workshop and conference that took place in Los Angeles last week. Some highlights include: Michael Berry (Univ. of Tennessee)'s talk is enlightening: "Text Mining Approaches for Email Surveillance" Mike...
Xan has a good post today exploring the world of TDT - Topic Detection research. We've been trying to work on something quick and dirty that automatically classifies a web page into a hierarchical category structure based on the key terms and phrases we've found to be common in that topic area. We've had no s...
Though I'm not a fan of AdSense and PPC, a colleague of mine asked me to write about how the new Adsense referral program 90 day limit is killing the business. If you haven't heard the news, below is a quote from Google AdSense:...
...and the way search engines see them. Though the Google Web Authoring Statistics study is few days old, I had the time to read and comment it only now. The study provides very little valuable or even ...
Browsing Digg this evening, I came across this entry, which, since being posted 10 hours ago, has received 473 diggs and is on the front page. What is it? Why it's a brilliant article from Direct Magazine - BigDaddy Means ...
