No mention of Google Office applications are made here, and the patent application was originally filed over a year ago, but the thought crosses my mind that it might be helpful to copy settings from Word to Writely, or from Excel to Google...
Should SEOs regularly monitor patent applications, white papers, and other publications that are authored by search engine software engineers and scientists? Many search engine optimizers regularly monitor search engine patent applications and use...
New Microsoft patent applications include one that attempts to identify web spam based upon signals within the content of a page, another looks at ways to search using pattern matching and relevance to answer specific questions, a third describes...
One of the inventors listed in the following patent application, Tomas Gunnarsson, is a Google Desktop Software Engineer according to a post he made in the Google Blog on a "quick search" for Desktop Search.
This last week's patent applications involving search all seem to focus upon users of search engines, and finding ways to fulfill intentions behind searches. The first of Outland Research's patent applications reranks search results based upon the...
There are a number of new patent applications from Yahoo, including one that utilizes concept networks to understand the intention behind a user's query; another describing an addition to a user interface that lets a searcher define the context...
Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search. The following patent applications primarily look at local search, though some of the processes described...
The following patent application explains how such a system might work from the search engine's perspective. Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data, and...
US Patent Application 20060122968 US Patent Application 20060122991 Yahoo adds two more patent applications which use concept units derived from searchers' queries to index the web. US Patent Application 20060120624
New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains New Search Patent Applications: May 23, 2006 - Yahoo Wallets, Microsoft Answers, and Google Phrases
See also, patent application number: 20060112341 Two Amazon employees have had a patent application published which may correct misspellings in queries in order to return results to searchers. US Patent Application 20060112079
Anna Patterson, who developed one of the largest search engines ever created while at the Internet Archives, and author of the ACM Queue article Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard, is the inventor listed on this patent application, which...
Some new patents and patent applications from the last week cover a wide range of search related topics. The first patent application I have listed for Yahoo is under their name in the US Patent and Trademark assignment database.
I did come up with something close in a patent application that is part of a larger set of refinements to a search user interface in Universal search interface systems and methods. This patent application was filed April 5, 2004 and published...
Presenting search engine results based on domain name related reputation (US Patent Application 20060095404) The Google patent application was published on March 31, 2005. Some research on a recent trilogy of Go Daddy patent applications raised...
The strong showing from the two companies is joined by a Yahoo patent on pay-for-placement bidding, a Doubleclick patent on media ads, a patent application from Harris Corporation on reranking results based upon vocabulary words, patent...
A patent application that they filed back in September of 1997, One of the original Outride patent applications, I'll be looking at some new patent applications later in the week, and some other recently issued patents.
Gary Price reports on three new Microsoft patent applications that were published yesterday. Those selected campaigns may include for instance immersive delivery modes in which a number of ads related to an area of interest, such as cars and...
Seven Recently Published Patent Applications from Microsoft Deal with Computation of Web Page Ranking, Calculating a Document's Importance, and Search Spam Detection and More Google's Patent Application for Click-to-Call Advertising Published
Seven Recently Published Patent Applications from Microsoft Deal with Computation of Web Page Ranking, Calculating a Document's Importance, and Search Spam Detection and More New Google Patent Application Defines Link Churn
