Searcher Behavior Research and how it is Changing
Alan Rimm-KaufmanSearch Engine Strategies 2006 Conference & Expo
New York, NY
February 27, 2006
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 <-->
- 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
