[Air-L] Google Search Algorithms

Tim Muntinga munt.tim at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 07:55:22 PDT 2012


Another interesting page in order to better understand the challenges of search engines: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html. This is the paper in which Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page introduce Google. Dated? Affirmative. 

-Tim


Op 16 apr 2012, om 16:49 heeft Alex Halavais het volgende geschreven:

> It is a mystery! Seriously: how Google finds and ranks sites--no
> matter what people tell you--is a closely guarded and frequently
> changed secret.
> 
> That said, they might be interested in an article on PageRank:
> 
> http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf
> 
> There are a variety of lists of signals that Google probably, maybe,
> could, almost certainly, might use out there on the web:
> 
> http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
> http://www.webpronews.com/google-ranking-signal-2011-08
> http://searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bing-really-count-55389
> (I guess) http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en/us/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
> 
> For a (somewhat dated) broad overview of how search engines do what
> they do, perhaps:
> 
> Witten, Gori, & Numerico, Web Dragons: Inside the Myths of Search
> Engine Technology, Morgan Kaufman, 2006.
> 
> For a even more accessible version (and also sadly a bit dated), I
> might immodestly suggest the first chapter of:
> 
> Halavais, Search Engine Society, Polity, 2008.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Alex
> 
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> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca> wrote:
>> All Hail Fellow Aoiristas!
>> 
>> I have some students who are looking for background reading on how the
>> Google search algorithms work.  Any suggestions here would be most
>> welcome.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Andrew
>> 
>> Andrew Herman, Ph. D.
>> Associate Professor and Chairperson
>> Department of Communication Studies
>> Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory
>> Wilfrid Laurier University
>> Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
>> CANADA
>> 519 884-1970 x3693
>> 
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