These metrics have withstood the test of time, and in cases where assessing actual sales is not a reality, they have served as a strong surrogate for this metric of success. It’s very easy to get caught up in the process when, in the end, all...
DA has been a surrogate for mobile-local search, since it has been the only game in town, so to speak, until recently. Local media research firm The Kelsey Group just forecast "portal-backed wireless voice search [will] reach 1.45 billion queries...
The search results are assigned scores based on the presence, position, and form of some or all of the query within the corresponding surrogate representations. Assigning scores to the search results based on visual characteristics of the surrogate...
This Microsoft patent application describes the use of a second set of training data that doesn't depend upon user interaction, but rather looks at anchor text "to be a surrogate for the missing user feedback data.
But if Google wants Microsoft to do that, then Google should make it happen right now in Firefox, which pretty much is Google's surrogate browser. I was off yesterday (it was a holiday in England), so I merrily missed the fireworks over Google's...
But if Google wants Microsoft to do that, then Google should make it happen right now in Firefox, which pretty much is Google's surrogate browser. Nevertheless, a few calls from reporters penetrated my holiday bubble, and I added a brief note with...
Size As Surrogate For Relevancy Today, Google is dropping from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive collection of web documents available to searchers.
In particular, I've written before on how size is mistakenly used as a surrogate for relevancy. My next piece will explore how sheer size isn't even a good surrogate for comprehensiveness. I wrote earlier of the dispute over index size between...
Finally, as we've repeatedly said, size should not be taken as a surrogate for relevancy. Now a new paper puts it at 11.5 billion pages or more, for January 2005. The Indexable Web is more than 11.5 billion pages has the details.
Search engine size figures are useful but by no means should they be taken as a surrogate for a relevancy figure. Microsoft had planned to seize the title of biggest search engine by announcing 5 billion pages indexed today.
Size figures have long been used as a surrogate for the missing relevancy figures that the search engine industry as a whole has failed to provide. Size figures are also a bad surrogate, because more pages in no way guarantees better results.
Size figures have long been used as a surrogate for the missing relevancy figures that the search engine industry as a whole has failed to provide. Size figures are also a bad surrogate, because more pages in no way guarantees better results.
