Category Archives: search engines

Posts on search engines, main topic of my PhD thesis

Google privacy

[en] Google announces the Privacy Center. The same day a “federal judge (…) ordered Google to provide Viacom with records of which users watched which videos on YouTube” (Boing Boing).

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Hermann Maurer: a smart outlook on the future

[Riassunto italiano: Hermann Maurer, professore di informatica all'università di Graz, ci ha offerto una panoramica sul futuro, partendo dalle minacce di Google e di internet. Un'ottima occasione per cambiare punto di vista da parte di noi ricercatore, troppo spesso entusiasti … Continue reading

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Personalization at Google

[Italian abstract: un'intervista al responsabile della personalizzazione di Google ci permette di capire alcuni aspetti del funzionamento del motore di ricerca. Per esempio, i criteri più importanti di personalizzazione sono location e search history. Poco si dice sulla lingua.] In … Continue reading

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[it] The dark side of Google

[English abstract: I read the book The dark side of Google, about some problematic issues of Google. It is interesting, although I have some remarks. ] Ho letto The dark side of Google, cioè la versione liberamente scaricabile di Luci … Continue reading

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Universal search, by Google

[it-abstract: Google ha modificato, in modo forse non troppo appariscente ma decisamente radicale, il concetto di ricerca, unendo i vari servizi di ricerca in un unico centro] Google 2.0: this are the words used by Danny Sullivan to talk about … Continue reading

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[it] Motori di ricerca: tre buoni consigli (per principianti) e una lista (per avanzati)

[en-abstract] Few months ago, Philip Lenssen posted three basic techniques of Search Engine Optimization (Create good content, Make your content accessible, Tells others about your content). I’d like to summarized and translated them for Italian readers. Tre tecniche di base … Continue reading

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Search, Ads & Apps

Search, Ads & Apps, according to Reuters, this seems to be the new Google tag line. Where is “Don’t be evil” or the thing on organizing world information? Danny Sullivan tries to answer. It seems that Microsoft will move his … Continue reading

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Duplicated content and the problem of supplemental index in Google

With modern CMS, like WordPress, you may find duplicate content: the same content – the same post – is displayed with several URLs (individual post page, category page, tag page,…). Pandia has an article by Shari Turow. Google doesn’t like … Continue reading

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Usages analysis of website in 3D

Reading a post on search and 3D (not really what I was searching for), I found another Google Blogoscoped post, on 3D visualization of log files analysis. The analysis of a websites log files is a very important activity: it … Continue reading

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1. Google, 2. Yahoo!, 3. Microsoft

ComScore and Nielsen//NetRatings numbers of February 2007 say that more than half of searcher are done on Google: Google: comScore 55.8% / Nielsen 48.1% Yahoo!: comScore 20.7% / Nielsen 28.1% Microsoft: comScore 9.6% / Nielsen 10.5% Ask is 4. for … Continue reading

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Tons of search engines

How many search engines do you know? Johnny, of the TSW blog recently added to my aggregator, suggests 400. First of all, what is a search engine? In my opinion, the definition that Johnny seems to prefere is a bit … Continue reading

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[it] "Voglio essere primo su Google" ha sempre meno senso

Spesso, parlando di web marketing, ci si sente dire: “Vorrei apparire per primo su Google”. Intanto, per quali keywords? Comunque sia, questa richiesta ha sempre meno senso: Google sta dando una spinta notevole alla ricerca personalizzata. Cosa significa? Significa che … Continue reading

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Doretta: a new way to search online?

Doretta is a Live Messenger Contact. You may add her to your contacts and chat. Doretta is a very nice girl, has a blog and speaks italian. Actually, it is promotional tool: Doretta is a bot designed to answer your questions. When … Continue reading

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How many search engines do you know?

Charles S. Knight knows more than 100 alternative to Google: From A9 to ZUULA. He expands the definition of search engine including del.icio.us and digg, something that I wouldn’t do although they can help you in finding things. [tags]search engines, … Continue reading

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A review of (probable) Google filters

Joe Whyte, SEO consulting, lists the filter that Google uses to exclude websites and gives some workaround to go back in the result pages. [tags]search engines, joe whyte, google, filter, sandbox[/tags]

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