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?
It wouldn't hurt to keep a tinfoil hat handy as well… Look no further than this Microsoft patent that talks about spying on SEO forums. Some of the most interesting Google patents were the series on historical elements.
The August buyout proposition for Motorola, which offered $12.5 billion, gives Google plenty of advantages – not the least of which is a strong patent portfolio. Google's buyout of Motorola Mobility is already under scrutiny from the U.S.
And everyone's favorite (search) patent uber-geek Bill Slawski also found this one: Document Scoring Based on Document Content Update. Originally there was a single patent. Recently the folks over at Google had a new algo tweak that once more...
Or is Google just testing out their new Doodle patent. Google Doodles are done to honor an event - a historical persons birthday such as locomotive engine inventor Richard Trevithick's 240th earlier this week or the 50th anniversary of manned space...
Google recently acquired a patent that suggests they might be using authorship as an authority signal so, in the future, there may possibly be a situation where influential people could pass higher voting power.
Followup on Google's Historical Data Patent Application, SEO by the Sea Google Patent Details Mobile Search PlansA new patent application published today may reveal some of Google's plans for mobile search.
Followup on Google’s Historical Data Patent Application, SEO by the Sea This reinforces for B2B marketers the importance of having a presence on general search engines, especially a presence on Google," said Gord Hotchkiss, Enquiro's CEO and...
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...
A few new patent filings from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.com. Google's newest patent filing expands upon Google Transit and Maps by providing information about taxi cabs, shuttles, limos, delivery trucks, moving vans, and other service vehicles.
Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data, and autolinking. Some queries involve the use of concepts and units, as described in at least five Yahoo patent...
Some research on a recent trilogy of Go Daddy patent applications raised those questions in my mind. The patent filings involve adding additional reputation information to published whois data, and letting others use the information for a number...
Some research on a recent trilogy of Go Daddy patent applications raised those questions in my mind. The patent filings involve adding additional reputation information to published whois data, and letting others use the information for a number...
The Google patent application was published on March 31, 2005. Some signs point to that, as noted in this Search Engine Watch Forums thread: Does New Google Patent Validate Sandbox Theory? The Go Daddy patent applications were originally filed on...
Search Engine Roundtable points to a just published patent application (not an awarded patent) from Google (congrats to Matt Cutts who is listed as a co-inventor) that's titled: Information retrieval based on historical data.
Rand was unable to attend in person, but thanks to moderator Chris Sherman's now famous "channeling" expertise (helped with a PowerPoint presentation with audio embedded), Rand was still able to walk the audience through his presentation on the...
Rand was unable to attend in person, but thanks to moderator Chris Sherman's now famous "channeling" expertise (helped with a PowerPoint presentation with audio embedded), Rand was still able to walk the audience through his presentation on the...
Google's Patent: Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data Rand "Randfish" Fishkin at SEOmoz nicely summarizes the five most critical concepts he finds: Still haven't found time to read through that pending Google patent that all the search...
A newly filed Google patent -- Does New Google Patent Validate Sandbox Theory? New Google Patent Details Many Google Techniques, WebmasterWorld Information retrieval based on historical data -- has search boards buzzing on whether it's providing...
A9 Search Looks to Patent Its Shtick. There was a 40 percent decrease in click potential in Google between a #1 and #2 position ("click potential" is defined as the product of relative impressions and relative click-through rate).
