Poodle – A simple emulation of search engine ranking factors
As a quick investigation of possible ranking factors a search engine may use, and the possible weightings attached to these factors, I created a spreadsheet which attaches rankings for search queries to a mini-corpus of 10 documents. Clearly this is just my own opinion, and comes from experience and reading patents and such. You can view document the document in its own window here. Better yet, download as Excel so you can play around with the values Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with google, and pagerank is a trademark of google. This spreadsheet is just for informational use to help...
read moreSpam in Poisoned World Cup Results
After staying up four in the morning to watch a terrible draw between America and England, I didn’t feel like repeating the experience when England’s next match against Algeria was scheduled for the same time. So, waking fresh the next day, I searched on Google to find the result and this is what I saw: Whilst the result was again disappointing, its great to see Google doing a good job of realising what my intention was, and displaying the England-Algeria result in a lovely little box. What they didn’t do a good job of though was keeping the spam out of this popular search...
read moreWhich Web 2.0 ranks best? Hubpages vs Squidoo vs Tumblr vs Blogspot etc.
An important consideration when creating a blog or forum is how well it will rank in search engines. Related is how well you can use such a forum to help push a more imortant site up the rankings. Much of this is due to factors such as the content and how many links you have directed to it, but not all hosts are created equal. The intention of this experiment was to find which Web 2.0′s rank best initially. To do this websites for a fictional football player, “Izavabich Rackinivurve”, were created. Quick, low quality content was created by translating 20 pages about Wayne...
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