Thread: Source Documents on Search Engine Theory

It seems like we spend a lot of time reading articles written by people who are reading articles written by other people who are reading articles written by other people who are reading articles written by other people who are reading articles written by other people ... almost ad infinitum[/i].

If you work your way past all the rephrasing and petit analysis, it seems that there are very few source documents upon which a lot of SEO theory is based.

Here are the biggies:

• Latent Semantic Analysis, Deerwester 1989
• HITS Algorithm, Kleinberg 1997
• PageRank, Page 1998
• VIPS: A Vision-Based Page Segmentation Algorithm, Cai, Yu, Wen, and Ma 2003
• Combating Web Spam with TrustRank, Gyöngyi, Garcia-Molina, and Pedersen 2004
• Information retrieval based on historical data, Acharya 2005
• Phrase-Based Indexing, Patterson 2005
• Interleaving Search Results, Bailey 2005

Are there any that are missing from my list?