Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• Scuttle: Online Bookmarks Manager
  Open source tagged bookmarking system, generally similar to del.icio.us including API implementation, so some 3rd part del.icio.us hacks can also be used.
  (tags: scuttle bookmarking tagging del.icio.us opensource software)
• Main Page - ScuttleWiki
  Beginning of a wiki for information on Scuttle bookmarking application.
  (tags: scuttle bookmarking wiki software)
• Pablotron: How to Make Delicious Not Suck
  Patches for cross posting to Scuttle and del.icio.us
  (tags: del.icio.us scuttle tagging software howto)
• How’d I Get Here (Firefox extension)
  Keeps track of the page clicked on to reach the current page (where the inbound link came from). Only works on Firefox 1.5, not 1.0
  (tags: firefox browser extensions attention software tools)
• Shadows - Tag, comment, and rate your favorite web pages.
  Another social tagged bookmarking system to check out. Incorporates ratings and comments on links and sites.
  (tags: shadows tags tagging bookmarking social software collaboration)
• hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists
  Looks up terms in Wikipedia then runs Yahoo Term Extraction service to identify key phrases which are then clustered and used to create a relationship graph.
  (tags: tagging ontology graph yahoo api folksonomy)
• Term Extraction Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services
  Web service identifies important keywords and phrases from input text. Free, limited to maximum of 5000 queries per day.
  (tags: yahoo api text analysis webservices web2.0)
• Hilltop: A Search Engine based on Expert Documents
  Krishna Bharat and George A. Mihaila - Method of ranking search results by identifying “expert” documents which are given higher weight. Elements of this approach are believed to be in use at Google since 2004.
  (tags: google search algorithms research theory hilltop authority pagerank)
• Who Links to Whom: Mining Linkage between Web Sites (2001) (PDF)
  Krishna Bharat, Bay-Wei Chang, Monika Henzinger, Matthias Ruhl - on analyzing link relationships between sites based on crawl data from Google.
  (tags: google search algorithm link analysis research)
• Web Spam Taxonomy (2005) (PDF)
  Zoltan Gyongyi, Hector Garcia-Molina - a comprehensive look at current web spam techniques, their effect on search ranking, and possible approaches to reduce their effect.
  (tags: spam search algorithms research seo)
• Combating Web Spam with TrustRank (2004) (PDF)
  Gyongyi, Zoltan; Garcia-Molina, Hector; Pedersen, Jan - methods for computing TrustRank for pages based on initial assignment of trust values and propagation of TrustRank through link relationships.
  (tags: pagerank trustrank google spam search algorithms research trust authority)
• An Analytical Comparison of Approaches to Personalizing PageRank (2003)
  Taher Haveliwala, Sepandar Kamvar and Glen Jeh - examines various modifications to PageRank, including BlockRank (host-based), topic weighting, and other calculations.
  (tags: search algorithms google pagerank blockrank)
• Topic-Sensitive PageRank: A Context-Sensitive Ranking Algorithm for Web Search (2003)
  Computes a set of PageRank vectors corresponding to different topics. When search context is known, linear combinations of topic-specific vectors are used to rank search results.
  (tags: search algorithms google pagerank contextual intent)

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