One of the more notable places you can find direct similarities between the NSTIC system and Google is in the Google patent applications. These pilot programs are meant to explore differing implementations of the NSTIC and how they work, then...
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 Search engines can no longer be ignored, especially as there are...
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 Search engines can no longer be ignored, especially as there are...
There were some interesting new patent applications this week from Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM, but nothing on the scale of the outpouring of intellectual property published and assigned to Google - I uncovered 15 new patent applications from the...
However, patent applications often offer limited, and even misleading, information.What search engines put into patents is often more like brainstorming," said Glick. Search engine staff know that their patent applications will be read by...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. This first Yahoo patent application went quickly from filing to publication in four months. US Patent Application 20060143254
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 extracting feature and formatting information from pages.
Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data, and autolinking. Harik's name is on a very large percentage of the patent applications involving Gmail-type...
Yahoo adds two more patent applications which use concept units derived from searchers' queries to index the web. In recent months, Google has had patent applications published on the use of predictive queries in the context of making it easier to...
US Patent Application 20060112089 US Patent Application 20060112081 See also, patent application number: 20060112341 US Patent Application 20060112079 US Patent 7,054,882 US Patent Application 20060117003
There are three patent applications not in the USPTO assignment database, but which could be associated with Yahoo. A number of patent applications published last week proved intriguing. These next two patent applications describe a toolbar addon...
With Google quiet, a recent flurry of activity burst out at the US Patent and Trademark Office from Microsoft and IBM, including the granting of a patent on a music search engine, another on searching recorded voice, and patents (and patent...
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. Yahoo patent on money exchanges; a Google patent on controlling access to documents based...
Anyway, Bill really digs deep into these algorithms and patent applications with links and abstracts pulled of content and video presentations. Bill Slawski has an excellent write up on web spam through the eyes of patent applications and published...
Gary Price reports on three new Microsoft patent applications that were published yesterday. Evaluating content is described, including generating a data set using an attribute associated with the content, evaluating the data set using a...
