Interestingly, the company was granted a patent for a “Computer-implemented method and system for conducting a search of electronically stored information,” in July this year. The patent describes an “interactive targeting rule editor,” which...
According to a blog post by Bill Slawski at SEO By the Sea that references US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filings, IBM has agreed to give Google 188 granted patents and another 29 pending patent applications.
While BT has a claim on 5,600 patents and patent applications, only six of those patents are coming into play for these allegations. Apple has won a major patent victory over HTC and Android as the U.S.
Local.com Gets Location-based Search Patent Users are now allowed to download applications designed specifically for the device. Location-based mobile social networking revenues will reach $3.3 billion by 2013, but successful business models may...
Posted by Frank Watson Jul 10, 2008 David Utter over at WebProNews has written an insightful piece on the possibility Microsoft wants Yahoo mainly for the old Overture patents it holds, in particular patent 361.
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 Gears for Windows Mobile and Android already have location APIs, and Google says they expect to see the My Location API implemented on the Apple iPhone applications as early as this month, as Apple launches...
Google Responds to Search Engine Patent Lawsuit, Marketing Pilgrim SEW Experts: Free Big Brand Marketing and Other Facebook ProblemsEven successful third-party applications don't generate a dime for Facebook, leaving the social platform cut out of...
Landing Pages and Google's Website Optimizer Patent Applications, SEO by the Sea Local & Mobile Search Organic Search SEW Experts: On Page vs. Off Page SEOOff-page SEO factors are getting all the attention these days.
Google Files GPay Patent - Mobile Payment MethodSeems Google is getting ready to launch another of their G ideas. Web Analytics for Facebook: Applications, FBML, and Facebook Engagement? This time it is GPay - a mobile payment method that seems...
Bill Slawski Uncovers Patent Info About Google Quality Scoring"A trio of patent applications from Google look at estimating the likelihood that an advertisement is a good one, in a method that goes beyond counting click-through-rates (CTR...
Bill Slawski Uncovers Patent Info About Google Quality Scoring"A trio of patent applications from Google look at estimating the likelihood that an advertisement is a good one, in a method that goes beyond counting click-through-rates (CTR).
Clickability Scores, Media Plans, and Historic Click-throughs: More Yahoo Search Marketing Patent Applications, SEO by the Sea Google Patent on Extended Search Indexes, SEO by the Sea Mywaves Adds Personalized Mobile Video SearchVideo delivered to...
Techdirt considers the impact that a couple of recent Yahoo patent applications filed for in February, and published last week (which I wrote about at SEO by the Sea), might have upon the growth of social networks.
The major search engines are all frequent filers of patent applications. Integrate Live Search Into Mobile Devices Echoing earlier deals with Yahoo and Google, Nokia, the world's largest mobile handset maker, has said it will integrate Microsoft's...
Microsoft had two new patent applications published, including one which provides a means of suggesting alternative spellings for words, and another that interacts with searchers to help them construct queries.
Microsoft published a couple of patent applications, one which looks at using game playing to provide user rankings for web pages, and a method of providing contextual advertisements for non-textual content.
One of the newest patent applications published from Neven Vision, Image-based search engine for mobile phones with camera, lists some possibilities: The company it was originally assigned to was Eyematic Interfaces, Inc.but the patent had been...
Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 - Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. Mobile handset maker Nokia is now underwriting the project as a sponsor.
Search Patent Applications: June 27, 2006 - Searching Amongst Malicious Web Microsoft's patent applications from the end of last week include ways for search engines to scan malicious web sites, clustering queries for more relevant searches, and...
