Until Next Year

Well, this was an incredible year. I participated of several international conferences, changed ISPs, went back to teaching at the … More

Preview of IRW-2008-1: Association Clusters

Here is a preview of IRW-2008-1. In this issue of the IRW newsletter we discuss association clusters in the context … More

For years marketers have put PageRank-based models into question, via “sandbox” theories and similar tales. This old paper might help … More

Back in the ’90s spammers used to stuff keywords in web page meta tags, aimed at inducing search engines to … More

From Keyword Density to Keyword Distribution Finally we have the Christmas Break from graduate school. In my last Web Mining … More

Ellen Voorhees, TREC Project Manager and Group Manager over at NIST.gov, sent me the TREC 2008 Call for Papers. To facilitate … More

Search Engine Spammers, beware: Here is the Call for Papers for The Fourth International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on … More

Week 6 Agenda Revisiting Understanding Ranking Algorithms (PPT Presentation) Local Term Weight Models (PPT Presentation) Discussion of FREQ, … More

Few days ago I reported on the Dark Web Project. There is one section of that paper that reads (emphasis … More

Mr. Nick Yorchak from Fusionbox and an alleged SEO “expert” has written this Sitepronews.com article about LSI, which perpetuates myths and … More