Update/Correction: Bill Slawski of SEO by the Sea has pointed out to us that the ComputerWorld article is actually based on Google News ranking signals from 2003. As Slawski's "The Traditional News Agency is Dead (On Google News)" points out:
Bill Slawski wrote an excellent post on a patent for a method of detecting commercial queries, secured by Google in October 2011. Slawski points out that a sentence near the end of the patent application opens the process up for uses on other...
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...
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 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 ever-vigilant patent-watcher Bill Slawski.
Okay I would not have bothered to read Yahoo's latest patent on reciprocal links if it were not for two blog posts by Bill Slawski and David Harry. Bill, on the other hand, gets the tip of the hat for his detail in simplifying various link related...
Yahoo Registers Meal Search Patent Posted by Frank Watson Jun 28, 2008 Bill Slawski, of SEO by The Sea, has uncovered another patent filing. Bill's article gives a much better interpretation than I ever could and should be read.
Mapping The Minds of Visitors Helps Categorizing, Keyword DevelopmentBill Slawski, of SEO by the Sea, wrote an interesting article about mapping visitor intent to help develop effective categories and keywords for your marketing efforts.
Bill Slawski at SEO by the Sea reports that a patent application for Google Blog Search reveals some of the factors that can impact ranking. Good eye, Bill. The two major factors are the relevance of the post, based upon the query used by a...
I thought of Danny's post from yesterday, Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend, when reading this patent application. US Patent Application 20060224967 US Patent Application 20060224938
This first patent application discusses the use of self organizing maps to increase search relevancy. US Patent Application 20060218138 This next patent application is a companion filing to that one, and relies upon the same technology to help with...
Dissecting whether understanding patents helps search optimizers were panelists Jon Glick, Senior Director of Product Search and Comparison Shopping at Become.com; Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOmoz.org; and Bill Slawski, President of SEO by the Sea, Inc.
IBM filed a patent application for building social networks within a business organization, and was granted a patent for a method of checking pages shown in search results for viruses. The method, system and computer readable medium product in...
US Patent Application 20060184512 US Patent Application 20060184500 US Patent Application 20060184608 US Patent Application 20060184578 US Patent Application 20060184523 US Patent Application 20060184997
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.
US Patent Application 20060173837 US Patent Application 20060173556 US Patent Application 20060173828 US Patent Application 20060173817 US Patent Application 20060173820 US Patent Application 20060173806
Microsoft unveils a patent application that could be the inspiration for Windows Live QnA, a process for removing unlinked documents from a search engine's index, an approach for presenting relevant snippets with search results, a means of...
US Patent Application 20060149461 US Patent Application 20060149774 US Patent Application 20060149625 US Patent Application 20060149710 US Patent Application 20060149775 US Patent Application 20060149623
Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. US Patent Application 20060143197 US Patent Application 20060143096 US Patent Application 20060143080 US Patent Application 20060139375
The text, the formatting information and the metadata are passed through a feature extraction application to extract data that may be used to improve a ranking of the search results based on relevance of the search results to the search engine query.
