Bill Slawski
Recent Posts by Bill Slawski
Google to Use Environmental Information in Queries
At the beginning of 2015, I wrote about a patent that told us it would...
Did the Groundhog Update Just Take Place at Google?
A story that ran at Search Engine Land a few days ago informed us of...
How Google May Identify Device Locations Using Magnetic Fields from AC Powerlines
The Value of Knowing Location of Searchers to a Search Engine There are many reasons...
Google to Extract Keywords from Image Text?
Might Google Extract Keywords from Image Text? A couple of years ago, I asked the...
Semantic Topic Modeling for Search Queries at Google
What is Semantic Topic Modeling? I came across some interesting papers at the Google Research...
Google’s High Quality Sites Patent
You may recognize the names of one of the inventors of the patent I am...
Might Google Personalize Search Results Based upon Membership in Social Network Communities
Might Google use information from social networks to personalize someone’s search queries and results, and...
Google to Use Distance from Mobile Location History for Ranking in Local Search
Does Mobile Location History Affect Local Search Ranking? Ranking factors for local search (and Google...
Originality Replaces Geography as Google News Ranking Signal
Updated 9/12/2019 The news is that Google has updated its news algorithm to focus more...
Thematic Modeling Using Related Words in Documents and Anchor Text
Entity Models and Thematic Models I’ve been looking at using models that can help with...
Might We Soon See Apple Augmented Reality?
Where Might Apple Fit into this New World of Augmented Reality Devices? Will we see...
About Those Changes to the Google Keyword Planning Tool
Google has changed a resource that many SEOs have been relying upon for years to...