Microsoft beats Google in patent ruling over Xbox technology – the InquirerMicrosoft has won a $1.8 million ruling in the first of two patent lawsuits against Google's Motorola Mobility over the use of its technology in the Xbox console.
SEO by the SeaGoogle has been granted a new patent, "Determining relevance scores for locations. Google Wants To Operate .Search As A “Dotless” Domain, Plans To Open .Cloud, .Blog And .App To Others – TechCrunchGoogle plan for http://search/: to...
A 2004 patent application by Google suggested they planned on assigning greater relevance to links in such positions and I wrote a little more about personalized PageRank in “Is Google Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfram?
This notion is the subject of a Googlepatent on the concept of the Reasonable Surfer. The patent talks about the likelihood of a link getting clicked based on its placement on the page. If you were an average user, what would impress you more, a...
It would have been desirable, but less than secondary, for Oracle to prevail on its patent claims," Mueller wrote in a blog post. Google-Oracle Jury Begins Deliberations in Patent Case The patent portion of the trial represented a far less...
Google has moved that its patent infringement case with Oracle be declared a mistrial following only partial findings of infringement from a San Francisco court. Oracle has contended that the platform is operating without proper licensing, while...
The high-profile patent infringement battle between Google and Oracle has entered jury deliberations. Andy Rubin s $3 Million Offer to Settle Patent Dispute Alsup] adopted various proposals from both parties, but neither party will be completely...
Note: there have been some updates to the original PageRank patent, which Bill Slawski covers in detail here. A link from the homepage of a powerful site like the BBC will be of a higher quality than a link from the links page of your high school's...
Patent disputes aren't limited to Google and Microsoft. Those 300 additional patents and patent applications will be non-exclusive to Microsoft, however. The agreement with Microsoft represents the culmination of a robust auction process for our...
From patent analysis to viewing "what may be", Bill Slawski does a bang-up job of summarizing the areas many of us get glassy-eyed thinking about. Google's Blog: The official blog of Google. Matt Cutts: The personal blog of Google's Matt Cutts.
Dave Heiner, Microsoft's deputy general counsel for its antitrust group, outlined Microsoft’s concerns with Motorola's stance on industry standard patent use in a detailed blog post. Microsoft's patent royalty to this group on that $1,000 laptop?
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.
Described as “an inside peek at how Google groups keywords by concept,” the initial Google Sets patent filing from April 2003 was the brainchild of two rockstar engineers from the early days at Google.
Google brazenly released a blog post condemning the patent strategies of Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle. It's understandable why Google would be frustrated with this sort of patent accumulation and, you know, suing.
Google Acquires Swimming Goggle Patent - SEO by the Sea A new way to share local product availability with your customers - Google Merchant Blog Our House testimony on combating copyright infringement - Google Public Policy Blog
Google's Page Segmentation Patent Granted - SEO by the Sea GooglePatent Shows Its Mobile-Payment Ambitions, but Raises Privacy Flags - BNET The two leading online measurement companies are in court fighting over patent infringements.
New Facebook Patent: the Huge Implications of Curated Search - BNET The First PageRank Patent and the Newest - SEO by the Sea A Street View showcase - Google LatLong Blog More resources for those affected by the Japan earthquake and tsunami...
After Amazon, Masterobjects Takes Google To Court Over Instant Search Patent - TechCrunch Last Call for Google I/O - Google Code Blog Speedier, simpler and safer: Chrome's basics get even better -Official GoogleBlog
Google, Microsoft join hands on patent - Times of India Press Start: launching Google Game Developer Central - Google Mobile Ads Blog Showcasing photos from people you care about - Google Photos Blog Get in touch faster with new Gmail Contacts for...
A change has been suspected for awhile as earlier this year, Richard Zwicky, writing for SearchEngineWatch, also identified a patent that suggested that Google was investigating author authority as a ranking factor.