Where's search heading? Ask Yahoo's chief scientist, Andrew Tomkins. He'll be giving the morning keynote today at SES New York. While most search engines for the past 10 years have relied heavily on analyzing anchor text, links, and content to determine relevance, researchers at the top search engines have recently begun to look at other signals that might indicate search result relevance. Tomkins reveals a few hints at the future in today's SearchDay, "Where's Search Heading? Ask Yahoo's Chief Scientist."
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O.K., this is a good thing to know. But now what I want to know is what PRECISELY does “engagement” in a site mean? When they define that, maybe we can predict the new algorithm, right?
P.S.-thanks for the post-you made me look good because I actually got to be the first one to tell my friends who are into this kind of thing all about the SES conference in NY! Cheers!:)
Thanks for the tip, good to know that the rules will always be changing, means job security for those SEO types.
Josh’s last blog post..Just like dating, one month and counting