Tag: search

Web Cleaners

The stream of negative comments began in 2002 after a woman who had sought advice from Scheff turned on her. The postings appeared on PTA Web sites in Florida, where Scheff lives. On bulletin boards and online forums. There were even YouTube videos threatening her. She sued for defamation and won an $11.3M verdict, but the attacks only got worse. In December, Scheff turned to ReputationDefender, a year-old firm that promised to help her cleanse her virtual reputation. She no longer dreads a Google search on her name.

reputation SEO is here.

谷歌热榜 Google Zeitgeist

real-time updates

Scaling Search

it takes a new Google user 1 month to go from typing novice queries to being a search expert. This means that there is little payoff in optimizing the site to help novices

Google Sheets Live Data

=GoogleLookup(“Paraguay”; “internet users”) this is pretty cool in a dataweb sort of way

Live Search Books

another me-too product from microsoft. us-only, too.

What Would Google Do?

while old-style data-rich companies use the data to send you junk mail, new-style ones use it to provide superior service. this is why we hate our banks and phone companies: what have they done for us lately?

Too much Bayes?

it is quite likely that a frequently misspelled word eventually occurs so much in the wild that it is considered a valid word. Maybe Google needs some if statements in their code after all, instead of blindly trusting the popularity contest that is Bayesian analysis.

more like accelerated language development. once a spelling becomes popular, it is the new correct spelling by sheer gravitational pull. go forth and coin those terms 🙂

George Bush

our AI is indeed getting better. very accurate

Womb-based SEO

Expectant parents are beginning to Google prospective baby names to ensure that their kids won’t face too much competition in securing a high search rank.

i called for unique names in 2003. why would you want a name that is not globally unique?

Pragh on search

a lot of wishful thinking in there, but the nash equilibrium stuff for recommendations is interesting