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Lightbulb! Stumbleupon Algorithm Unearthed?
SEM News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Published: Sep 22, 2007 - 02:45 pm
Story Found By: aimClear 1709 Days ago
Category: SEM
How does the Stumbleupon algorithm really work? Andy Beard (the scientist among us) points us to Tim Nash’s (the other scientist) VERY serious research illuminating how SU really works.
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from AndyBeard 1709 Days ago #
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I personally don’t look on this as a great article because it deliberately doesn’t contain much content of any use to anyone, but that was the point. I gave it a title different to others that might pick up some traffic and direct it to Tim’s insightful post. It picked up a quite healthy link from Quadzilla at SEOBlackHat (a via), and a few of the blogs that aggregate his content. (BlackHats almost deserved to be splogged ;) ) I know from testing that if I want to divert traffic to a single source, the less I say the better. I don’t use this very often, maybe once a week, and my readers have come to expect that whenever I link to someone in this way it tends to be a very good article. It also amazes me that I often get a nice discussion around the article even on my blog, thus the pages never lack in content. I am also wondering where Mashable picked up the story, possibly directly, but maybe forgot a via It will be interesting how Google eventually work out the search results for Stumbleupon Algorithm http://www.google.com/search?q=stumbleupon+algorithm&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-32,GGGL:en Yes, this is an attempt to make this worth Sphinning just for the comments.

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from aimClear 1709 Days ago #
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:) Tim deserves credit for the AWESOME post. I FOUND the awesome post because Andy linked to it and I read Andy’s blog often. Both posts are important to me because, even though I love Tim’s, I would not have seen it if not for Andy. Andy, that was the idea right? Tim Nash is an amazing SEM scientist and so is Andy Beard. Andy posted a link to Tim’s research into the SU algorithm. The hallmark of the blog world is writers writing about writers who wrote...I wrote both gents to let them know what was afoot. I also think it is neat to test if social bookmarks can cascade in ways that reflect the multi-layer recommendation-idiosyncrasies of the blog world.

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from AndyBeard 1709 Days ago #
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I think it is also good to highlight that many people in this situation just rewrite half the story effectively taking away a reason for someone to click through. Though many might not look on summarizing a blog post as a form of plagiarism, it might be looked on as creating a derivative work. You might find this article very interesting http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/09/14/rss-brief-another-scrapingspam-threat/

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from tnash 1709 Days ago #
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You know I really should have put my SEO hat on when I wrote the title for my piece not including the term algorithm will probably mean that 3rd place may well be where I remain :) Thank you both for promoting the piece its nice when people take an interest particularly as this is not the sort of post I thought I would made you can thank (or rather I should thank) MegT http://blogpond.com.au/ who encouraged me to write a more full post after I started going into far to much detail about stumbleupon in one of her posts ;)

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from dsemmler 1709 Days ago #
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I do think that the social bookmarks can cascade as you found Tim’s fantastic post because Andy linked to it and now I found Andy’s post and subsequently Tim’s post because you linked to it here on Sphinn. 

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from aimClear 1709 Days ago #
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Chicken, Egg, Egg, Chicken...breakfast and dinner for everybody. 

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