Learn about linear regression, understand its nuances in machine learning, and explore its limitations and alternatives.
Schmidt Aims Algorithms At Energy Crisis
Green is the new black; math is the new cool; and Google CEO Eric Schmidt has some formulas for increasing energy efficiency, job creation, money saving, and how the Internet will fend off global warming. Sound far-fetched? Schmidt says, “It’s just a math problem.”
Because Algorithms Are People Too…Oh, Wait
Google has yet to create an algorithm that approximates how the human mind processes things. They’re working on it, of course, but it is still a textual (as well as contextual and behavioral, and mathematical, among others) process rather than a pure cognitive process. And that creates a gap that is hard to navigate when writing for the Web: write for the reader or write for the spider?
Search String Data Sensitivity Hits Spotlight
An in-depth recap of Danny Sullivan’s interview with Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, discussing search data sensitivity, partnerships, and Google’s future directions.
SES: SE Algorithms: Can you Please Them All?
Search engine specialists use to spend inordinate amounts of time creating pages that ranked well at just one search engine due to algorithmic weighting of known and very specific ranking factors.
Looking at Google AdWords Landing Page Algorithms
ClickZ takes a closer look at Google’s tougher algorithms for AdWords landing pages. The changes are designed to filter out MFA sites aka “made for AdSense” which are designed to attract traffic for pennies and display AdSense ads that earn the publisher a profit.
Sober Worm Algorithms Finnished
The scheme used by the virus writer behind the Sober worms to determine where it will connect on the Internet has been cracked by the Finnish security firm.
Chasing the Search Engines’ Algorithms . . . Should you or Shouldn’t you?
It’s a common occurrence. SEOs often spend countless hours trying to “break” a search engine’s algorithm.
Reverse – Engineering Search Engine Ranking Algorithms
Back in 1997 I did some research in an attempt to reverse-engineer algorithms used by search engines. In that year, the big ones included AltaVista, Webcralwer, Lycos, Infoseek, and a few others.
Dissecting Technorati Top 100 & Blog Ranking Algorithms
About 9 months ago I started working on a document describing the technical differences in blogs versus a standard website. I began that doc in order to determine how a search engine like Google might apply a different variant of it’s PageRank algorithm to blogs than it does for websites.