Extracting link spam using biased random walks from spam seed sets B Wu, K Chellapilla - Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Adversarial IR, 2007 Have a look. Google Penalty or Algorithm Change: Dealing With Lost Traffic – Explains...
Yes, it is duly noted that Google (and other IR systems) have an entire wing of the AIR command dedicated to dealing with those that might seek to manipulate their creations. There are even more than a few IR lectures on video where those pesky...
Although, I dare say, to an IR scientist, if not stale it probably seems about as elementary as it gets. But rarely (if ever) do they describe the interdisciplinary approach to information retrieval (IR) covering mathematics, computer science...
We're looking to gain insight into the mind-set of the IR (information retrieval) engineer's head space, not looking for magic bullets and we're not chasing algorithms. Recently the folks over at Google had a new algo tweak that once more sought to...
Given that this type of data isn't readily available IR folks they have to also look at the implicit user feedback. While these might seem logical at first glance, over the years IR folks have been divided as to what the actual value of these may...
Ir is the company counting greed will overpower any negative association? They may have been using controversy to get more press for their company, but Groupon's Superbowl ad that makes light of the troubles Tibet has with China may well backfire...
Conductor released a research report today on the search visibility and optimization effectiveness of the Internet Retailer 500 (IR 500). The report, entitled "Natural Search Trends of the Internet Retailer 500, evaluates the natural search...
In London, Pixie Lott and Sinnitta will appear, and in Mumbai, Shankar Mahadevan, VJ Nikhil Chinappa and Shaa'ir + Func will advise yodelers. Yahoo! is holding a global Yodeling contest. Yes, that's right, now you have the chance to enter your...
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of this conference call will be available at http://ir.baidu.com . Chinese search engine Baidu saw a whopping 91% increase in the third quarter of 2008. The search engine had been seeing explosive growth...
The capabilities of computational advertising, which is largely also an IR problem (for example, retrieving matching ads from a fixed inventory), are clearly impacted because of the sparsity of advertisements.
Organic SEO experts with e-commerce experience from top tier IR's (Internet retailers) Here's the best example of misleading statistics we've seen, outside of the ads skewering the mythical Cable Corp: "DirecTV - Cable Corp Inc.
I think the new spot is simple, innovative, fresh and like the common like many other things involving Ask, illustrates that core search and IR is still core to what Ask is doing these days," writes Price.
Retrieval (IR), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Visualization Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately:
Gary Price, at Resource Shelf, pointed earlier today to a paper from a University of Maryland workshop held last year, which brought together researchers from the "fields of Information Seeking (IS), Information Retrieval (IR), Human-Computer...
Conference On IR Recapped Today's search podcast covers the new Google Calendar service, Google's personalized home page getting an ad; Google gaining a new head of Google Local; a Google shareholder wanting a one share, one vote rule; tracking...
What? You didn't make the European Conference on Information Retrieval in London this week? Don't fret. Xan Porter did and has a rundown here, with one interesting paper from Microsoft Research on how key terms appearing in a URL can be used to...
If IR is of interest, this is one personal home page full of interesting material. News from Yahoo that they have just opened new research labs in Chile and Spain. Yahoo has hired famed information scientist, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, to run these new...
This monster discussion was started by user Orion, who introduced himself as "a formal scientist, with special interest in AI applied to IR technology. During the past year, the Search Engine Watch forums have grown into a lively community, with...
It's titled, "Recommended Reading for IR Research Students" and is a 12 page pdf. The reading list/bibliography was edited by three highly respected academics involved in IR research from Australia: If your a search and information retrieval geek...
Abstract: "Classic IR (information retrieval) is inherently predicated on users searching for information, the socalled "information need". Andrei Broder, former vice president of research at AltaVista and until recently Distinguished Engineer PDF
