If you have 2 minutes with a customer, and the law required that you show a random sampling of your links to customer prospects, would you happily show the link to a target customer? This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on...
A video posted to the Bing It On site depicts random people on the street identifying Google as their preferred search engine, then choosing Bing's search results as better and more relevant. The search engine survey was conducted by San Diego...
The following screenshot is a random sampling among these Facebook Pages Insights reports which shows the reach and engagement of each of their Facebook posts. A relatively unknown business to business website experimenting with their Facebook page...
After taking a random sampling of 200,000 "Jeopardy" clues and performing searches on Google, Bing, Ask, Blekko, Wikipedia search, and Yandex, this search engine "found" the most correct answers. Here's a recap of this week's columns and news...
After taking a random sampling of 200,000 "Jeopardy" clues and performing searches on Google, Bing, Ask, Blekko, Wikipedia search, and Yandex, this search engine "found" the most correct answers. If you responded, "What is Google?
Another type of sampling bias can be introduced by sequential testing. Even if you run your tests by splitting the available traffic and showing different versions of your site design in parallel, you may still run into biased sampling issues...
But a lot of people might object that the behavior of your landing page visitors isn't "random. And probability theory is concerned with the study of random events. In statistical terminology, you have two stochastic processes (experiences with...
button on your browser toolbar will let you cruise through a random sampling of sites that have been tagged with your subscribed tag. These days, it seems that social media marketing is on the minds of every search engine marketer.
In Google Has the Largest Number of Dead and Old Pages, the Google Operating System Blog points to a video and some research from Google's Ziv Bar-Yossef that discusses how to grab a random sample of pages from major search engines and extrapolate...
The random walk sampling process could comprise a hard-focus method that selects only on-topic pages at each step of the focused random walk, or a soft-focus method that allows limited divergence to off-topic pages.
Prosecutors are requesting a "random sampling" of 1 million Internet addresses accessible through Google's popular search engine, and a random sampling of 1 million search queries submitted to Google over a one-week period.
However, after "lengthy negotiation" the government changed and "narrowed" their request and asked for a "multi- stage random sample of one million URLS from Google's database ie, a random selection of the various databases in which those URL's...
In turn, using a small random sample instead of the full set of results leads to efficient approximate algorithms for several applications, such as: Title: Sampling Search-Engine Results We consider the problem of efficiently sampling Web search...
As for a confirmation that all links aren't reported, this past blog post from SEW gives you confirmation and this page on Google mentions links are only a sampling of what Google knows although this other Google page fails to make this clear.
