Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Google’s Rankings are Remarkably Well Correlated

Posted by randfish Last week at our annual mozinar, Ben Hendrickson gave a talk on a unique methodology for improving SEO. The reception was overwhelming – I’ve never previously been part of a professional event where thunderous applause broke out not once but multiple times in the midst of a speaker’s remarks. _ Ben Hendrickson speaking in last Fall at the Distilled/SEOmoz PRO Training London (he’ll be returning this year) _ I doubt I can recreate the energy and excitement of the 320-person filled room that day, but my goal in this post is to help explain the concepts of topic modeling, vector space models as they relate to information retrieval and the work we’ve done on LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation)

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Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Google’s Rankings are Remarkably Well Correlated

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