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Que Du Web in Deauville, 2017: I signed up for another round!
This time, more nerves than usual: Cocon.Se was also a sponsor and had a booth on site.
Lots to prepare, and the urge to always bring original, non-commercial content; I may have set the bar too high and overestimated my strength.
This talk is half history, half tech.
I’m publishing a video remake of it, one episode a week, with transcript and slides.
Here are the episodes available so far:
- Ep 1: Graphs are everywhere!
- Ep 2: Graphs and trees? That’s just reheated leftovers!!
- Ep 3: Applying it to PageRank, with some counterintuitive behavior
- Ep 4: TextRank and how it applies to SEO
- Ep 5: Recap and conclusion
In a nutshell:
On the history side, I try to show that every recent revolution in SEO actually has very, very old roots, and that maybe we haven’t invented as much as we like to think.
Trees, graph theory: that’s ancient history.
On the tech side, two important, concrete applications for SEOs: first, the PageRank algorithm, with some counterintuitive things about how PageRank flows that are very often misunderstood; and second, an application of graph theory to language processing, explaining an algorithm that automatically extracts the keywords of a text, or writes an automatic summary of it.
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