Alan spoke at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York on February 27, 2006.

In his presentation, Clickstreams, Complexity, and Contribution: Modeling Searcher Behavior Using Markov Models, Alan discussed searcher behavior research and how it is changing. Here is a list of links that Alan referenced in his talk:

• Wikipedia discussion of Markov chains
• Wikipedia discussion of PageRank
• Matlab, a popular commercial package for matrix calculations
• GNU Octave, a popular open source package for matrix calculations
• Windows Octave binaries BAD LINK
• sample Octave code from the 3 state surf example in the presentation
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• The Second Eigenvalue of the Google Matrix, a Stanford working paper on convergence speed, with interesting comments on detecting paid links
• Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Brin and Page, 1998