I stumbled across Professor Rich Ackerman's Theory of Information Retrieval Site today and found this excellent summary on the theory of normalized term weight. There's some nasty...
Many of us have heard rumors about Google banning IP addresses or even entire blocks of IPs based on spamming or manipulative activity coming from them. Here's a case of an SEO whose found exactly this to be the case. From the post: Google will not cache the index pages for any of the sites Incomming tra...
A lot of people have been e-mailing, requesting access to my audio/visual presentation from San Jose SES. The topic is the recent Google patent application "Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data". The presentation is abo...
All the black hats out there will love this one. Try a search at Google for hypocrite - the 1st result is the most relevant one, right? Whoever said content is king? P.S. More ...
Let me take you back, dear readers, to last Saturday night when, prior to attending a party for a friend's birthday, some friends of ours met up at our apartment (warning - a peek into Rand's life, upcoming). We drank some Rosé and were standing around in the kitche...
Yahoo! is promoting, on their homepage no less, a video contest where users send in their favorite short videos - the promotion specifically features one of a bulldog riding on a skateboard. The videos are then consid...
Since I'm in the process of re-building the information architecture for two clients this week, I thought I'd re-visit Dr. Garcia's paper - On-Topic Analysis. For those who aren't familiar with the concept behind the research, on-topic analysis is a system that's designed to help you organize your site's content by topic ...
Today, Barry over at SERoundtable commented that Yahoo! appears to be having some serious issues with how many results its linkdomain command displays. Like Barry, I decided to take a deeper look into the links Yahoo! recognizes to SEOmoz.org. Here are some of the results: ...
While looking around for some tokenization databases to help me build a term weight analysis tool, I came across a Microsoft article from January of 1997 on the subject of text analysis. This paper discusses some of the elements used in text processing, topic detection and classification and clearly shows that in 1997, search engine...
In the field of IR, natural language processing is one of the most important tasks that an automated system must perform. The filtration & tokenization of text in particular is of great importance in order to be able to mathematically represent, classify and ultimately anal...
Darrin Ward, the founder of SEOChat and SEO Town (one of the first SEO forums I ever participated in) has released some great information given to him by a Google friend on ...
GoogleGuide has a great advanced operator guide that showed me a few items I was unaware of that are available through GG's search bar. In addition to being comprehensive, it's also highly readable a...
Today, it's a long post instead of several quick ones. Admittedly, I'm experimenting with my blogging habits here at SEOmoz, so drop me a line if you've got some great ideas (or something you'd rather not see more of). It can often be exceptionally informative for a search marketer or SEO to conduct comparitive searches at the major SEs now and again, particularly when targeting a new m...
Mr. Mcanerin has done some terrific research over at his blog that has seemingly gone unappreciated at the major SEO news sites - for shame on us all... Ian's research focuses on what Google will and won't index and how they handle everything from unique, international characters (like é) to w...