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Most of us in the search space are familiar with the principles of the "query deserves freshness" (QDF) algorithm at Google, but this is almost certainly not the only intent detection process and algo-tweaking area the engine applies. One popular theory that gets inspires a good bit of discussion around the SEO water [...]

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If you didn’t attend Web 2.0, you can watch my keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I’ll embed the keynote below as well.The only thing I don’t like about conference speaking is preparing slides. When I use slides at a talk, I almost always make a custom presentation. [...]

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After nearly two years in the making — and plenty of hype — Powerset has finally rolled out a "natural language" search engine. It’s not a Google killer. It’s barely a business model right now. But at least it’s something the world can finally play with, and under the hood, there’s lots of potential.
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