Microsoft's new search algorithm returns more relevant search results by focusing on a page's "stickiness" as opposed to its incoming links.
Microsoft Research just published a paper revealing a new type of web search ranking — BrowseRank [pdf] — as revealed at last week's SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) conference. (Thanks for the heads-up James).
The gist of the proposal is that search results are ranked by how long users tend to stay on a single page vs. the amount of incoming links a page has (i.e. PageRank).
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Paul — Aug 4, 2008
Tagged with: Adobe,
Apple,
Blogging,
Blogs of substantive content,
BrowseRank,
GlueRank,
Google,
Microsoft,
Neologism Day,
PageRank,
Search,
Stickiness,
Web 2.0.
When it comes to strategies for bringing out our creativity, there's no magic bullet, but we're not left empty-handed. The best ammunition we've got is just slightly more oblique.
Copyblogger Brian Clark proved once again that he is truly the master of click-inducing post titles with his Sunday post, How to Write Remarkably Creative Content.
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Paul — Sep 11, 2007
In the best analytical tradition of "getting all meta-", Design Less Better is pleased to present a survey of the first posts for some of our favorite blogs.
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DLB on September 6, 2007
Your public introduction to the world seems, on one hand, earth-shatteringly important, and on the other, totally throwaway. It's probably a little bit of both (perhaps more the latter). Still, you can't write a blog without writing a first post. It's impossible.
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DLB — Sep 6, 2007
