Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• 5 reasons why search personalization won’t work (PDF)
  Article by Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of Vivisimo on why personalized search won’t work, at least for now.
  (tags: vivismo search google yahoo social collaboration privacy)
• Nick Denton: Startup kit
  Nice list of services and resources to consider if you’re putting together a small startup today
  (tags: startups lists business entrepreneurship howto)
• So you want to be a consultant…?
  Good summary of advice for prospective independent consultants
  (tags: consulting business work career howto)
• Cre8: SEO Myths - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Cre8asite forums - Search Engine Optimization, Usability and Web Design
  Long thread discussing various issues around search engine indexing, duplicate detection, and more
  (tags: search seo)
• Efficient Crawling Through URL Ordering (PDF)
  by Junghoo Cho, Hector Garcia-Molina, Lawrence Page. A Stanford paper on some of what later became Google.
  (tags: google search research)
• The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web (PDF)
  by Page, Lawrence; Brin, Sergey; Motwani, Rajeev; Winograd, Terry - 1998 Stanford paper on Google
  (tags: google search research)
• Topic Sensitive PageRank (PDF)
  2002 paper by Taher H. Haveliwala at Stanford extending PageRank approach to multiple dimensions
  (tags: google search pagerank research)
• Deeper Inside PageRank (PDF)
  Internet Mathematics Vol. 1, No. 3: 335-380 Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Detailed 46-page overview of PageRank and search analysis.
  (tags: google pagerank theory)
• SpamRank – Fully Automatic Link Spam Detection - Work in progress (PDF)
  Andras A. Benczur, Karoly Csalogany, Tamas Sarlos, Mate Uher - Proposes a SpamRank metric based on personalized pagerank and local pagerank distribution of linking sites.
  (tags: google search research spam theory)
• Computing Personalized PageRanks (PDF)
  Franco Scarselli, Ah Chung Tsoi, Markus Hagenbuchner (2004)
  (tags: search google research theory)
• Paradoxical Effects in PageRank Incremental Computations (PDF)
  (Extended abstract) Paolo Boldi, Massimo Santini, Sebastiano Vigna. Discussion of tradeoffs between various site crawling and page discovery approaches.
  (tags: search google research theory)
• Online Reputation Systems: The Cost of Attack of PageRank (PDF)
  A detailed look at the value and costs of reputation and some speculation on how much it costs to purchase higher ranking through spam, link brokering, etc
  (tags: pagerank reputation google research)
• Monte Carlo methods in PageRank computation (PDF)
  When one iteration is sufficient K.Avrachenkov, N. Litvak, D. Nemirovsky, N. Osipova. Proposes an alternative single pass statistical method rather than deterministic pagerank calculation.
  (tags: pagerank search algorithm research)
• Detecting Duplicate and near duplicate files
  William Pugh presentation slides on US patent 6,658,423 (assigned to Google) for an approach using shingles (text fragments) to compare content similarity.
  (tags: google search algorithm research)

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