Search Engine Patents and White Papers Added

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Some new papers and patents have been added to the search engine white papers section on Webmaster Woman during the past couple of months.

Today papers on word sense disambiguation were added, and the links were moved a separate page that was created for the topic.

In March pages were added for keywords co-occcurrence and the Google applications and related documents on phrase based indexing

In February, a page on search engine clustering was added.

There have been more interesting ones found, as well as some good articles, that are expected to be added to pages during the month of April.

Apr

8

Yahoo’s Site Explorer Displays Inbound Links

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Released in Beta Site Explorer Badge queries Yahoo’s Site Explorer for inlinks and displays in a graphic placed on the page. There’s a choice of whether to track the number of links to a particular page, or to the site where the badge graphic is placed.

Jan

27

Yahoo MyWeb is no longer usable or useful

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I’ve used MyWeb and loved it since the very beginning. But no more. Too bad, I really liked it.

At first I could categorize what I saved in folders with other related entries. Now it’s tags and it just doesn’t work, I can’t find a thing after it’s saved and don’t want to navigate through months and months of chronological entries.

Tagging may work for some things, but it does not serve the same purpose as saving in folders. So it’s back to using bookmarks in IE, where I can find what I considered valuable enough to save a bookmark to.

Dec

19

What if Google Bought ODP?

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It looks like DMOZ had a near-death experience this week, according to this discussion at ABestWeb: DMOZ is DEAD

It didn’t take long to resuscitate, and it seems the editor notes are completely gone, with an interesting observation made

For those “more creative” webmasters, losing the DMOZ editor notes is like the police losing your criminal record!

I’ve long thought that it would be a good idea if Google bought ODP, but for other reasons, not the least of which are technical issues, but this brings a whole new dimension of possibility.

What if Google did own ODP and had complete access to all the IP numbers of editors and submitters and who knows what else. Bet it would make a fun toy for the spam team.