The patent application, filed with the US PTO, describes a device that would be placed on a wristband and would include one or more touch displays. Google has filed for a patent, which, if developed, could bring a wearable smartwatch device to its...
In February of 2012, a new version of the Google patent was published as a pending application. A recent ComputerWorld article has revealed new insights into Google’s news-ranking algorithm, based on information from a patent filed by Google in...
One of the more notable places you can find direct similarities between the NSTIC system and Google is in the Google patent applications. However, and even more insidious is the application of this Identity Ecosystem to the Search Paradigm.
A 2004 patent application by Google suggested they planned on assigning greater relevance to links in such positions and I wrote a little more about personalized PageRank in “Is Google Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfram?
The patent application describes the exact match domain problem: a company may attempt to “trick” the search engine into listing the company’s web site more highly. Slawski points out that a sentence near the end of the patent application opens the...
District Court Judge William Alsup said Google "failed to comply" with his order of August 7 in the firm's patent litigation with enterprise database and applications vendor Oracle. Judge Alsup ruled that the 37 application programming interfaces...
Apple has sued a number of Android handset vendors over alleged patent infringement, and former Apple chief Steve Jobs famously vowed to go "thermonuclear war" to beat Google in the mobile space. Earlier this year, the company unveiled a new Maps...
In a patent application approved Tuesday, Google used the review/comments systems used by Amazon and Slashdot to support their method and gain approval for their "invention". The interesting aspect of the patent is the use of +1 as part of the...
Microsoft’s U.S.patent application, “Applying a Model of Persona to Search Results,” outlines a search system that would allow users to search the web as their favorite celebrity. What do you think of the patent application?
The patent lists Sergey Brin as the sole inventor and references an application filed in May, 2000. The patent actually references animated GIFs in its description, so you know the Google patent lawyers have been working on this a long time.
Patrick Altoft and Bill Slawski have both previously written about a Google patent application showing how a search engine can identify inadequate search content based on statistics associated with search queries and then share this information...
Notorious Patent Troll NTP Locates A New Target: Yahoo - TechCrunch How to shape strategies and tactics specific to fan engagement, application development/deployment, and advertising. Google is adding a "Change location" link to the left panel on...
Google Patent on URL Compression and the Mobile Web - SEO by the Sea When you allow access to log-in to some website or application, you're also agreeing to let the developer who created this log-in access all your direct messages, and opening...
A recently published patent application from Google describes how it might identify location information on web pages, verify the locations found on those pages, and insert links to maps after finding and verifying them.
Boston-area startup Skyhook Wireless is suing Google for interfering with its business and patent infringement, claiming that Google forced one of its paying customers, Motorola, to ditch Skyhook to pass Google's compliance tests.
According to embodiments of the invention, a developer annotates portions of the procedural code of a rich Internet application to facilitate exposing particular content to a search engine," the patent filing reads.
Yahoo Patent App Sheds Light on SEO Priorities Posted by Kevin Newcomb Feb 4, 2009 A recent patent application from Yahoo highlights several factors that Yahoo itself proposes to use for optimizing Web pages for its search engine, according to the...
A lawsuit was filed in Arizona Federal court against Microsoft, Google and Apple by Cygnus Systems, Inc.over use of their just granted patent for "System and method for iconic software environment management.
Yahoo Registers Meal Search Patent Posted by Frank Watson Jun 28, 2008 Bill Slawski, of SEO by The Sea, has uncovered another patent filing. This time Yahoo is applying for a patent for meal search technology.
Google Patent Details Mobile Search Plans Now Google is opening up the application to 3rd party developers. If the phone has GPS, the Maps application on the phone sends the GPS coordinates along with the cell ID to the Google location server.
