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Recent Posts | | Archive: 2008 | 2007 | Legacy Posts
Sample of Archived Posts
| July | |
| 2008/07/25 | Gaming the Gamers: The SEOs Exposed Story http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/gaming-the-gamers-the-seos-exposed-story/ |
| 2008/07/24 | A Spammer on the Loose http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/a-spammer-on-the-loose/ |
| 2008/07/21 | SEOs and their Exhaustivity Search Myths http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/seos-and-their-exhaustivity-search-myths/ |
| 2008/07/18 | The Porter Stemmer http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/the-porter-stemmer/ |
| 2008/07/14 | Claps and Slaps http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/claps-and-slaps/ |
| 2008/07/07 | Understanding TFIDF http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/understanding-tfidf/ |
| 2008/07/03 | SEOs and their IDF Myths: Part 2 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/seos-and-their-idf-myths-part-2/ |
| June | |
| 2008/06/30 | On the Stability of Global Weights in the Presence of Spam http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/on-the-stability-of-global-weights-in-the-presence-of-spam/ |
| 2008/06/27 | Answers to IR Quiz http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/answers-to-ir-quiz/ |
| 2008/06/26 | Complimentary version of IR Watch http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/complimentary-version-of-ir-watch/ |
| 2008/06/23 | sneak Preview of IRWatch: Understanding IDF http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/sneak-preview-of-irwatch-understanding-idf/ |
| 2008/06/20 | Link Sellers from 1995 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/link-sellers-from-1995/ |
| 2008/06/19 | It is time for Yang to leave Yahoo! http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/it-is-time-for-yang-to-leave-yahoo/ |
| 2008/06/18 | IR Quiz http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/ir-quiz/ |
| 2008/06/17 | SEOs and their IDF Myths http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/seos-and-their-idf-myths/ |
| 2008/06/03 | SEOs Scams: LSI, KW, and Markov Chains http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/seos-scams-lsi-kw-and-markov-chains/ |
| May | |
| 2008/05/23 | Search Engines Architecture Week 11 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/search-engines-architecture-week-11/ |
| 2008/05/22 | Microsoft: Putting Dollar Value to Searches http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/microsoft-putting-dollar-value-to-searches/ |
| 2008/05/19 | Cell Phone Spam http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/cell-phone-spam/ |
| 2008/05/16 | Search Engines Architecture Week 10 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/search-engines-architecture-week-10/ |
| 2008/05/13 | IRW-2008-05:Search Engines Architecture Review Test http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/irw-2008-05search-engines-architecture-review-test/ |
| 2008/05/12 | PowerSet Semantic Searches in Wikipedia http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/powerset-semantic-searches-in-wikipedia/ |
| 2008/05/09 | Search Engines Architecture Week 9 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/search-engines-architecture-week-9/ |
| 2008/05/07 | Search Engines Cache in the Times of Drug Busts http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/search-engines-cache-in-the-times-of-drug-busts/ |
| 2008/05/05 | Pink Keywords: Optimization of Resumes and Job Applications http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/pink-keywords-optimization-of-resumes-and-job-applications/ |
| 2008/05/02 | Search Engines Architecture Week 8 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/search-engines-architecture-week-8/ |
| April | |
| 2008/04/29 | For SEO Spammers: AIRWeb 2008 Presentations http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/for-seo-spammers-airweb-2008-presentations/ |
| 2008/04/25 | Search Engines Architecture Week 7 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/search-engines-architecture-week-7/ |
| 2008/04/24 | SEOs - Desperate Seeking Clients http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/seos-desperate-seeking-clients/ |
| 2008/04/22 | Building the Porter Stemmer http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/building-the-porter-stemmer/ |
| 2008/04/21 | Vector Space Models and Search Engines http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/vector-space-models-and-search-engines/ |
| 2008/04/18 | Search Engines Architecture Week 6 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/search-engines-architecture-week-6/ |
| 2008/04/17 | How Search Engines Do Not Work http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/how-search-engines-do-not-work/ |
| 2008/04/16 | IRW 2008-04: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/irw-2008-04-principal-component-analysis-pca/ |
| 2008/04/14 | Experiment in Parsing Techniques http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/experiment-in-parsing-techniques/ |
| 2008/04/11 | Search Engines Architecture Week 5 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/search-engines-architecture-week-5/ |
| 2008/04/11 | Few Rants: Microsoft, a Conference, and a Database Site http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/few-rants-microsoft-a-conference-and-a-database-site/ |
| 2008/04/07 | Demystifying LSI Video http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/demystifying-lsi-video/ |
| 2008/04/04 | Search Engines Architecture Week 4 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/search-engines-architecture-week-4/ |
| 2008/04/03 | Understanding Search Engines http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/understanding-search-engines/ |
| 2008/04/02 | Adressing Some LSI Questions http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/adressing-some-lsi-questions/ |
| March | |
| 2008/03/28 | Search Engines Architecture Week 3 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/search-engines-architecture-week-3/ |
| 2008/03/25 | PCA and SPCA Tutorial http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/pca-and-spca-tutorial/ |
| 2008/03/24 | Verizon, FCC, and the C Block Competition http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/verizon-fcc-and-the-c-block-competition/ |
| 2008/03/20 | Important Terrier Upgrade and Call for Participation http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/important-terrier-upgrade-and-call-for-participation/ |
| 2008/03/18 | Principal Component Analysis Tutorial and Other Algos http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/principal-component-analysis-tutorial/ |
| 2008/03/14 | Search Engines Architecture Week 2 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/search-engines-architecture-week/ |
| 2008/03/13 | Back Mapping for SEOs http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/back-mapping-for-seos/ |
| 2008/03/12 | How Many SEO Myths In One Sentence? http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/how-many-seo-myths-in-one-sentence/ |
| 2008/03/11 | Back-Mapping Document Clusters to Terms http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/back-mapping-document-clusters-to-terms/ |
| 2008/03/07 | Search Engines for Penetration Testing Course http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/search-engines-for-penetration-testing-course/ |
| 2008/03/06 | Search Engines Architecture Week 1 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/search-engines-architecture-week-1/ |
| February | |
| 2008/02/29 | SEOs and University Education http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/seos-and-university-education/ |
| 2008/02/28 | Google-IBM-NSF Partnership in Data-Intensive Computing http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/google-ibm-nsf-partnership-in-data-intensive-computing/ |
| 2008/02/27 | Search Engines Architecture Graduate Course http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/search-engines-architecture-graduate-course/ |
| 2008/02/26 | Keyword Density Tools and SEOs http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/keyword-density-tools-and-seos/ |
| 2008/02/25 | AIRWeb-2008 Last Call for Papers & Extension Deadline http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/airweb-2008-last-call-for-papers-extension-deadline/ |
| 2008/02/21 | Search Engines for Penetration Testing http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/search-engines-for-penetration-testing/ |
| 2008/02/18 | IRW-2008-2 sneak Preview http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/irw-2008-2-sneak-preview/ |
| 2008/02/15 | Web Mining, Search Engines, and Information Security http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/web-mining-search-engines-and-information-security/ |
| 2008/02/14 | Predating Link Models and PageRank http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/predating-link-models-and-pagerank/ |
| 2008/02/13 | LSI: How Many Dimensions to Keep? http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/lsi-how-many-dimensions-to-keep/ |
| 2008/02/12 | ECIR Tutorial on Terrier http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/ecir-tutorial-on-terrier/ |
| 2008/02/11 | Web Mining Week 11 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/web-mining-week-11/ |
| 2008/02/07 | Keyword Density, SEOs, and the Deception War http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/keyword-density-seos-and-the-deception-war/ |
| 2008/02/06 | Ecir 2008 2nd Call for Papers http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/ecir-2008-2nd-call-for-papers/ |
| 2008/02/04 | Web Mining Week 10 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/web-mining-week-10/ |
| 2008/02/01 | Searchmaggedon: Microsoft to buy Yahoo http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/searchmaggedon-microsofts-to-buy-yahoo/ |
| January | |
| 2008/01/22 | Association & Scalar Clusters Tutorial - Part 1 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/association-scalar-clusters-tutorial-part-1/ |
| 2008/01/21 | Web Mining Week 8 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/web-mining-week-8/ |
| 2008/01/18 | Finding Topic-Specific Posts http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/finding-topic-specific-posts/ |
| 2008/01/16 | Global Term Weights based on Entropies http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/global-term-weights-based-on-entropies/ |
| 2008/01/14 | Web Mining Week 7 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/web-mining-week-7/ |
| 2008/01/11 | Web Mining and Search Engines Architecture Courses http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/web-mining-and-search-engines-architecture-courses/ |
| 2008/01/10 | Triangular Link Swapping http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/triangular-link-swapping/ |
| 2008/01/04 | Thesis: DNIDS Using the CSI-KNN Algorithm http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/thesis-dnids-using-the-csi-knn-algorithm/ |
| 2008/01/02 | SIMCALC, Binary Similarity Calculator http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/simcalc-binary-similarity-calculator/ |
