G patent: identifying similar passages in text
The patent entitled “Identifying and Linking Similar Passages in a Digital Text Corpus” was published on the 22nd of January and filed on the 20th July 2007. It’s a really interesting one, not just...
View ArticleInformation credibility analysis
I wanted to draw a little attention to a Japanese project called the “Information Credibility Criteria Project“. The NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) started it...
View ArticleThe RankMass crawler
The paper entitled “RankMass Crawler: A Crawler with High Personalized PageRank Coverage Guarantee” (Cho, Schonfeld, University of California) deals with the important topic of how many pages should...
View ArticleEffective Query Log Anonymization
Check out this very good Google tech talk about using query logs: “User search query logs have proven to be very useful, but have vast potential for misuse. Several incidents have shown that simple...
View ArticleWhat is an algorithm?
Let’s get right back down to basics and look at what an algorithm is. There are several different types, and it can all get a little bit confusing sometimes. It can be very complicated and it can...
View ArticleScience for Seo is back
Hi all, due to some annoying complications, as many of you have noticed, this blog has been down for 4 days. I’m sorry about that, and am quite certain that this won’t be happening again! Thanks for...
View ArticleYahoo! Research on the healthy Sem Web
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Peter Mika and Hugo Zaragoza from Yahoo! Research wrote a really insightful, meaningful and down to earth article called “Search, Web 2.0, and the semantic web”. It is a response...
View ArticleTwitter is not a search engine
There have been quite a few posts about Twitter being a search engine. I can see the logic but as the title of my post indicates, I don’t think it is. I think that the posts around it, especially the...
View ArticleTGIF – o[-
Welcome to another edition of TGIF. I trust that you all had a wonderful week, be it either at work or on holiday somewhere. For those into listening to music while working, I’ve decided to add a...
View ArticleMe on Tumblr
Whilst I go through the monumental task of doing all my thesis corrections and finishing my PhD (finally), I don’t have much time for blogging and writing at length. Especially since I also work a...
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