In the survey mentioned earlier, users showed that they want to use social for, well, socializing, while turning to search universally across all information retrieval scenarios: If tech media coverage frequency were to serve as a barometer of the...
So I study patents from Google, Bing and other Information Retrieval scientists. And, much like Google gets better because it has access to a lot of information, SEOs get better when we have access to a lot of information, too!
The work of this small, relatively unknown, team is indicative of the future of information retrieval on connected devices and their journey illustrates why search must continually evolve. From Search Engine to Information Provider
“Picture the communications future: every home linked via cable TV, push‐button phone, and video cassette to virtually every information retrieval bank in the country; every citizen able to efficiently get an answer to every question, a solution...
Search-and-retrieval. However, another perspective, that more carefully considers why Google+ is being pushed so aggressively, may suggest a slight addendum to their initial mission: “To enable engagement by organizing the world’s information and...
There is therefore a paradigm shift taking place in the way Google works as it attempts to move from its existing method of organizing information based on a document retrieval process to one based on semantics and understanding user intent.
This assumption characterizes user information retrieval behaviors as black and white when in reality they are many shades of gray. While our sample size of 100 won't win any academic research awards, it should give us a sense of a user’s online...
Is this a Google-only information retrieval problem, that relevant sites aren’t showing up (ignoring the fact that it's nearly impossible for an algorithm to discern intent from two keywords)? Given its market share and public commitment to...
The joint lab named Baidu - I2R Research Centre (BIRC) will focus on Southeast Asian language resources, natural language processing, information retrieval and information extraction, speech information processing and multimedia processing.
Detecting spam documents in a phrase based information retrieval system Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2007) C Castillo, K Chellapilla, BD Davison Detecting link spam using temporal information (ICDM-2006) G Shen, B Gao, TY...
However, Facebook has yet to show any public interest in crawling and indexing the entire web with a traditional information retrieval search engine. A new survey finds 48 percent of respondents dislike the idea of Facebook launching its own search...
And to some degree that may be true because of my interest in information retrieval and having known some Google engineers over the years. It seems that we're finally starting to see more of what many have suspected for a long time.
This doesn’t sound like Facebook’s attempt to become a traditional information retrieval type of web search engine like Google or Bing, which both crawl and show results for the entire web based on hundreds or thousands of signals and ranking...
Lirpa received his PhD from Cornell University, where he studied with Gerard Salton, a pioneer in the field of information retrieval, the academic discipline which forms the foundation of modern search.
The platform is different, but the user goal is the same: content discovery.and information retrieval. In January of this year, the Ask Your Target Market (AYTM) Google Search survey showed that 45 percent of respondents felt that Google’s search...
Additionally, Google’s newly implemented privacy policy combines user data across Google services and devices, moving us ever closer to Google’s serendiptious search and more integrated search, but one that doesn’t rely on the web indexing...
Bill Slawski offers a dozen possible methods that might have changed, including local interconnectivity, anchor text indexing, and cross-language information retrieval. Freshness, Spiking Topics searches that involve timely information, such as...
I have to say, I've been fascinated by the response from, what I guess, is an audience that was too young back in early 2000s to want to read about information retrieval on the web and how that relates to SEO, and how websites that have the most...
This is a concept that translates well to human information retrieval of all kinds. Give me the information that I am looking for so I can get in and get out. Today, increasingly it feels like Google is tripping over itself, increasingly getting in...
You insert JavaScript code provided by your software and it sends the data off to a server that collects the data to organize and store for later retrieval. Log analyzers give you great information on what happens as visitors connect to your servers.
