Food for Thought
May 8th, 2020 — 7:47pm
3 concepts, 1 dominant..
If you don’t know which one, I will help, the least frequent one.
tf-idf at work.. crude vector normalization, and poor diversification of results.
Category: technical-seo
Where is Google heading?
June 28th, 2019 — 3:52am
Update:
In the last few years I have noticed it has become much harder to rank sites on Google. I knew it was in part due to using machine learning in ranking where things are based much more on big data statistics and less on common sense factors.
However, a recent whistleblower video illuminates why some sites may not rank as high or even be completely removed from search (or the platform all together). Following video has been removed from all major video sharing platforms, so it is quite important to see.
Google insider with hidden cam.
It is so important that some of the responsible people from Google have been called to congressional hearing. Super important points were made by the congressman:
I would add a few more points. Continue reading »
Super strange results
May 6th, 2019 — 7:20am
Query: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Top+52+places+to+see+in+San+Bernardo
Results: Top 52 places to see in San Bernardo – Google Search
Just keeping this for future reference, to see if this is temporary experiment on their side, or permanent bug.
What percentage of the Internet does Google index?
January 31st, 2018 — 4:56am
What part of the Universe can we see? To answer this question, we need to know or estimate the total size of the Universe.
It is impossible for us to estimate the size of the web without actually creating a big sample, but we can estimate the index size based on our own sites which we know well enough.
Today I stumbled upon one curious evidence I made few months ago, a screenshot of crawl statistics of one of my websites, as shown by Google Webmaster Tools.
Topical SEO
December 5th, 2017 — 2:47pm
It is amazing how much search engine technology evolved during the past decade. I remember when I was reverse engineering how they work by simply doing thought experiments based on common sense and how I would implement similar things (I do have a computer science related background). Often I was able to test my hypothesis with actual experiments, but sometimes experiments were not feasible.
Thousands of engineers, scientists, inventors, and scholars are researching and contributing to this field, directly and indirectly. That is millions of man hours of dedicated and passionate work! Web Information Retrieval is such a rich area of human knowledge and full of impressive findings, both in sense of cool ideas, and impressive engineering and scalability. How come that most available SEO tools rely on such old concepts as are keywords? Continue reading »