One of the more notable places you can find direct similarities between the NSTIC system and Google is in the Google patent applications. No more passwords is the main selling point of the NSTIC program to the User (Me), so it takes a lot of...
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...
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...
The major search engines are all frequent filers of patent applications. While most of these documents make for fascinating reading, do they offer any useful clues for optimizing web pages that might give search marketers an edge?
The major search engines are all frequent filers of patent applications. While most of these documents make for fascinating reading, do they offer any useful clues for optimizing web pages that might give search marketers an edge?
Search engine staff know that their patent applications will be read by competitors and SEOs," he continued. Many search engine optimizers regularly monitor search engine patent applications and use this documentation as proof that their...
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...
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.
New Search Patent Applications: August 8, 2006 - Focusing on the SearcherThis last week's patent applications involving search all seem to focus upon users of search engines, and finding ways to fulfill intentions behind searches.
New Search Patent Applications: August 8, 2006 - Focusing on the Searcher 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.
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...
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...
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...
New Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 - Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Near You Google files patents for shopping offline with online assistance, a secondary map in Google Maps, and an updated review aggregator.
Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. Very similar to another patent application from a couple of weeks ago, Method and system for finding and aggregating reviews for a product, and filed on...
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...
A couple of newly published patent applications from Yahoo build upon the methods described in those documents to categorize concepts and build taxonomies of concepts. Yahoo adds two more patent applications which use concept units derived from...
