How to Explain SEO to the Illiterate – the Library Analogy
Thursday, 27 December 2007
- Published in Fun, Insights / Research, Natural Search / SEO
Improving Search through Google’s Distributed File System
Thursday, 08 November 2007
For those of you interested my post last month about how search engines really work, Doug Judd has written a slightly technical brief about the Google File System and specifically, how it can be improved. Doug is leading an open-source project which builds on top of distributed file systems like GFS, HDFS, and Kosmos, bringing
How Search Engines Work
Tuesday, 09 October 2007
About a week ago, Kosmix, one of the few emerging businesses doing anything significant in Search, announced the release of a search technology that gives them a significant advantage in the search space: the Kosmos File System. With all our talk of algorithms and indexes, I’m sure you realize that an engine isn’t as simple
- Published in Advertising, Search
Analytics Vendor Comparison : Omniture, Coremetrics, Hitbox, and Google
Friday, 10 August 2007
For years, we have all pined over the lack of a comprehensive comparison of analytics platforms from Omniture’s SiteCatalyst, Coremetrics, Visual Sciences’ Hitbox (previously WebSideStory), and Google. Online marketers and web designers have to sit through cumbersome sales pitches and wade through confusing RFPs to decipher which solution is best for them. No more I
- Published in Analytics, Vendors / Agencies