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
Is this thing on???
Tuesday, 06 November 2007
Further validating Murphy’s Law, it seems my RSS feeds failed on the eve of some of my most intellectually stimulating discourse. In case you missed the fun, come back and check out, “Why the world needs SEO’s” (Did you know? Google’s “algorithm” only works effectively in on an efficient, optimized web) and “Fixing behavioral targeting”
- Published in Change Log
Why the world needs SEOs (or – Google only works in an efficient market)
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
In our industry, we often opine two important considerations:Google’s algorithmThe Question (if you will) of an SEO Most significant to the first question is the process of SEO itself; our constant evaluation of how it works, methodology, success stories and failures. We question how the model works so as to effectively optimize a site to
- Published in Natural Search / SEO, Search
Behavioral Targeting Optimization
Saturday, 27 October 2007
Don’t you just love epiphanies? Those brief moments in time when a great idea just hits you. I feel like I had one of those this morning, an opportunity so obvious, it alarms me that ad networks and portals have yet to have stumbled on the idea themselves. A few days ago I had a
- Published in Advertising