Yahoo funds $1M Stanford journalism fellowship, San Jose Business Journal Want to build your own search engine that skews toward your favorite sites or
topic, but don't have a few billion to start up your own company?
Google
opens office in Turkey, TMCnet (Google started at Stanford University, not
a garage, despite what this Google speaker appears to have said. While on the
topic of Chinese censorship, take a look at the list Philipp compiled of
Google Guys Invest in a Motion Picture Being Made by Friend - Via Philipp at Google Blogoscoped, an article in the San Francisco Chronicle that informs us that the Google Guys (Sergey and Larry) are investing in a film titled, " Broken Arrows...
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 StanfordDaily paper as a classic example.
StanfordDaily Removes Paid Links from our blog last month looks at
how the student paper at Stanford University recently removed paid listings after coming under fire again that they were being sold in a way that worked against search
relevancy.
The Stanford InfoLab has just posted a new 22 page technical report titled, "Link Spam Alliances. New Technical Report from Stanford Discusses Link Spam May. The China Daily reports that web engine Accoona is now offering a small amount of company...
Stanford University's Student Paper BrilliantShopper.com to Launch Soon. A service called Wondir, makes it possible to ask questions on any topic and get answers from other members of the community. A brief article in the People's Daily reports on...
The StanfordDaily 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...
The StanfordDaily 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...
The paper was written while they were students at Stanford. In this post, a short bibliography of other papers that the "Google Boys" wrote while members of the Stanford Database Group. Capping Your Overture & Google Daily Ad Budgets By Danny...
Turns out, Stanford University owns the patent on PageRank, a part of the Google ranking system. Bidder's Edge hurts Net, group says Bloomberg, July 18, 2000 http://www.digitalmass.com/news/daily/07/18/bidders_edge.html
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.