Search Engines Architecture Week 3

Week 3 Agenda Lecture Session Document Indexing Web Crawling Techniques Lab Session For this lab, students should have already signed … More

PCA and SPCA Tutorial

As promised, the PCA and SPCA Tutorial is now available at Mi Islita. I wrote this tutorial for two reasons: … More

Now that the B and C blocks of the spectrum has been allotted by the FCC things are set-ready-go to open … More

Craig Macdonald from University of Glasgow and ECIR, sent me this upgrade and Call for Participation concerning the Terrier platform. BTW, if … More

I’m currently writing a principal component analysis (PCA) tutorial for students enrolled in the Search Engines Architecture course. It should … More

Week 2 Agenda Lecture Session Visualizing Matrix Operations SVD and PCA Review If we have time, I will start with: … More

A reader asked me how he could apply back mapping (BM) to SEO work. Essentially, any algorithm like BM that … More

When I thought I have read enough SEO myths here is another SEO “expert” combining many of these in one: … More

Back Mapping is a simple technique that elegantly identifies local and global topics. Here is a sneak preview of the … More

More on the topic of college education and search engines: In the Caribbean we don’t have seasons, just early spring breaks … More