Mike Marshall Talks SEM Logic
Thanks to Rand for pointing me in the direction of the staff of Fortune Interactive (including Andy Beal, and Mike Marshall). SEM Logic is a brilliant piece of programming done by a guy nice enough to talk to me for 25 minutes even though he […]
Mr. Ploppy’s Monday Tool List – Volume V – Content and Links

You want higher rankings, but you just want to press a magical button and see the traffic roll in. The truth is you’re probably not gonna get anywere near that magic button, so you had better start building two things – content and links. Here’s […]
Applied Semantic Whitepaper
With all the talk of patents and search technology development lately, I wanted to have this to go back and reference. The Applied Semantics White Paper is fairly readable, and definitely worth a good perusing. If you can’t seem to get it, try through the […]
Information Arms Race – SE’s vs. SEO’s

This has been a post I’ve been procrastinating on for quite some time now, but with the release of the most important SEO related document in the last 5 years according to WebGuerrilla, I thought it was about time to forge ahead, and at least […]
Mr. Ploppy’s Monday Tool List – Volume I

So I have a section of this site that is for tools, and I have a ton of tools in my bookmarks. Creative use of tools, afterall, is one of the aspects that makes for a good SEO. I figured I’d make a weekly SEO/ […]
Information Retrieval Research – IDF/ TVT

Inverse Document Frequency/ Term Vector Theory Well, I haven’t had as much chance I would like to do research on this latest update, but I did see Jake mention IDF in this post at SEW (which also has a ton of other good information (msg […]
Welcome to Latent Sementic Indexing Hell
“Welcome to LSI hell, folks” – BakedJake – webmasterworld.com So the last thing was pretty worthless, so I figured I’d take a little time and comment on the new bane of SEO existence. It isn’t really NEW per se…we’re just starting to see it in […]