The RankMass crawler
The paper entitled “RankMass Crawler: A Crawler with High Personalized PageRank Coverage Guarantee” (Cho, Schonfeld, University of California) deals with the important topic of how many pages should...
View ArticleBookRank
“Remembering what we like: Toward an agent-based model of Web traffic” by Bruno Gonçalves & Mark R. Meiss (Indiana University) and José J. Ramasco (CNLL, ISI foundation, Turin) is a paper due to...
View ArticleG patent: Autocompletion using ranked results
“Method and system for autocompletion using ranked results” is a patent granted to Google on the 3rd of February 2009. Their invention is to process query information received from a user prior to the...
View ArticleNew ranking algorithms
Ranking algorithms are changing a great deal at the moment. Before, like HITS and PageRank they looked at how websites and pages were connected and used any information they could gather from those to...
View ArticleRanking by semantic similarity
A useful method is presented in “Categorizing and Ranking Search Engine’s Results by Semantic Similarity” by Tianyong Hao, Zhi Lu, Shitong Wang, Tiansong Zou, Shenhua GU, Liu Wenyin (University Hong...
View ArticlePapers on PageRank you should read
PageRank is a standard and much discussed topic in SEO and while it is relevant, the methods and techniques discussed are often not. There is a lot of discussion around the original PageRank formula...
View ArticleBounce rate & Google
There is an excellent post over at Search Engine called “9 Reasons Your Website Can Have a High Bounce Rate“. There’s a lot more to say about “Bounce rate” which I might launch into in another post,...
View ArticleWhat is InfluenceRank?
There is such a thing as InfluenceRank and it is relevant to social media as a whole. It is very difficult to rank users, find authority blogs and to create any sort of order in this world as a whole....
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