Sep
28
This is quite a nice find that I came across today while doing a search for hubs and authories. It’s a complete IR textbook based on a class taught by the authors at Stanford University, Introduction to Information Retrieval and it’s available, hosted at Stanford, in both PDF and HTML formats.
May
3
Searching the Web
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I’m enjoying reading the “How to Search” section at about.com where guide Wendy Boswell has some interesting articles and points to some excellent resources:
About Search: Learning to Search the Web
Apr
11
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.