Rate Yahoo A New Relevancy Test; TeraGoogle Ask's Maps Google's GDrive; Classified Ads From Microsoft; Stanford Daily Selling Links Again & More! Search Engines Forum Spotlight - Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the...
Daily SearchCast, March 8, 2006: Windows Live Search Launches; A New Relevancy Test; TeraGoogle Ask's Maps Google's GDrive; Classified Ads From Microsoft; Stanford Daily Selling Links Again & More! You can find all shows from previous days listed...
Last April, I wrote about how the Stanford Daily newspaper was selling links for those seeking to rank better on Google, ironic given that Google was born out of Stanford University and is very anti-link selling.
I wrote back in April about how the sale of off-topic links to advertisers looking for search ranking boosts had become well seated within university newspapers, with the Stanford Daily paper as a classic example.
Our forum thread Stanford Daily Selling Links also has discussion on the issue. Stanford Daily Removes Paid Links from our blog last month looks at how the student paper at Stanford University recently removed paid listings after coming under...
Stanford Daily Selling Links In April, I wrote about how Stanford University's student newspaper and many other student papers were selling offtopic links to advertisers almost certainly trying to increase their search rankings.
The Stanford Daily Selling Links thread at our Search Engine Watch Forums (and see also this from Feb) looks at the ironic situation of the student newspaper at Stanford University -- the birthplace of Google, Yahoo and owner of the PageRank...
Stanford Daily Oct 5 2004 10:09AM GMT While it carries links to online booksellers, it earns no income from these, the company said. The content effectively gives Google many more billboards where it can place sponsored links.
Turns out, Stanford University owns the patent on PageRank, a part of the Google ranking system. See the agenda links along the left-hand side of the page below: Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Kanoodle Kontext...
I mentioned Kaltix briefly in a previous newsletter, a search start-up out of Stanford University (which gave birth to Yahoo and Google). Agendas for these shows are not ready, but you can follow the links listed on the page below to get location...
Personalized Web Search Company Formed by Members of Stanford's PageRank Project ResourceShelf, July 12, 2003 http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2003_07_01_resourceshelf_archive.html/#105792742403772187
Two Stanford University students will present a paper at the 12th Annual WWW Conference explaining ways to speed up the calculation of PageRank -- NOT the ranking algorithm behind the Google search engine but rather one component of that algorithm.
