Filippo Menczer Looks At Search Engine Results

Filippo Menczer, an assistant professor of Management Sciences at the University of Iowa, has been exploring how Web sites relate to each other. He analyzed a sample of 150,000 web pages, studying the relationships between text, links and meaning, ending up examining almost four billion pairs of pages with similarities.

He discovered that pages link to the best and most popular pages within the same category, leading to mini-Webs based on a certain topic. You can read the announcement of the research at University of Iowa: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0109menczer.html . For more background on what he did, check out the interview at http://tinyurl.com/4e02 , as well as a page of links to information at http://dollar.biz.uiowa.edu/~fil/Web/ .

In addition to this Web study, Professor Menczer is also studying Web crawlers. You can get information on the MySpiders project at http://dollar.biz.uiowa.edu/~fil/IS/ . Unfortunately I couldn't get the demo (Java applet) to work on either IE or Mozilla.

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