Google Bits: New Line Added to Google Robots.txt File; New Research Papers from Google Available; Google’s Top Envoy to Webmaster Community Leaving for Zillow
+ Google Adds New Line to Robots.txt File
You’ll now see /default in the robots.txt file. We’re sure Garett will likely have the answer to what this is all about very soon.
++ In the past few days a bunch of new papers written by researchers at Google were added to the Research Publications collection on the Google Labs website. What follows are links to just a few of them. Most of these papers are technical but, at a minimum, the abstract and intro can often provide youw with an idea of what they’re all about if you don’t have the technical knowledge to read the entire paper. Interesting reading follows.
+ An Alternative Ranking Problem for Search Engines
by Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri, Ashish Rastogi
+ Magnitude-Preserving Ranking Algorithms
by Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri, Ashish Rastogi
+ Margin-Based Ranking Meets Boosting in the Middle
by Cynthia Rudin, Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri, Robert E. Schapire
+ Organizing and Searching the World Wide Web of Facts - Step Two: Harnessing the Wisdom of the Crowds
by Marius Pasca
+ The Ghost In The Browser Analysis of Web-based Malware
by Niels Provos, Dean McNamee, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Ke Wang, Nagendra Modadugu
+ Selective Disclosure
by Ben Laurie
+ Estimating Clustering Indexes in Data Streams
by Luciana Buriol, Gereon Frahling, Stefano Leonardi, Christian Sohler
+ Speech Recognition with Weighted Finite-State Transducers
by Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael Riley
+ Power Provisioning for a Warehouse-sized Computer
Power Provisioning for a Warehouse-sized Computer
by Xiaobo Fan, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André Barroso
+ Learning the Inter-frame Distance for Discriminative Template-based Keyword Detection
by David Grangier, Samy Bengio
+ A Machine Learning Framework for Spoken-Dialog Classification
by Corinna Cortes, Patrick Haffner, Mehryar Mohri
+ Vanessa Fox, Head of Google’s Webmaster Central, Moving to Job at Zillow (via Search Engine Land)
See Also: Comments from Vanessa Fox
+ GoogleApps.com Moved to a Google Name Server
Previously on the Awaken.net name server.
++ Blog-google.com Now Registered to Google
++ Blogger.org Now Registered to Google
Previously registered to Blogger founder, Ev Williams.