Yahoo Allows for Personal Spam Filtering – Search Engine Journal
If you’ve been to Yahoo lately, you may have noticed the “save” and “block” links after certain results. : “I can see Yahoo using this data to implement Bayesian filtering for personalized web searches. As people continue to block and save sites in My Web, the filter gradually will define what people see as spam [...]
Also from Search Engine Journal :: MSN Local Search Goes Live
MSN may be late to the party, but some preliminary reviews are giving the impression Microsoft’s Search Network might be the ones who brought the beer… “Though late to the party, MSN is the last but not least major search entrant in the effort to deliver local. PDF
From Search Engine Journal :: MSN Search Updates Results Based on RankNet
“The search results seem more relevant to the query and MSN feels that RankNet “has improved [their] relevance and most importantly gives [them] a platform they can move forward on.†The new ranking technology is based on neural net, which was discussed by Microsoft in a research paper headed by Chris Burges titled Learning to [...]
News from PC Magazine: Google’s CEO Confirms Work on Online Payment Service
Since I wasn’t able to bring you Search Engine Tuesday yesterday, I’m going to bring you various news related items today. “Google’s top executive confirmed on Tuesday that the company is planning to expand into broader online payment services but said it will not compete with a PayPal-like service. In a company-issued statement, Google CEO [...]
Last but Not Least For Traffic Thursdays – from EzineArticles.com
I find my self tipping my hat to Christopher Knight every time he sends out his newsletter. But this week, he was busy, and so replaced his regular news items with a wonderful article writing series by Dina Giolitto. So here are the links to all the articles he suggested – I gave them a [...]
Web Expertz
Web Experts, a high traffic online community with an articles section has started a new article directory. WXCity Reprint Article and Tutorial Library: “This collection of reprintable articles and tutorials is made available for two reasons. First, we seek to provide authors with an opportunity to freely communicate their knowledge and insights to a broad [...]
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