Search Week in Review for Nov. 20, 2010
Google Wins Patent To Display Thumbnails Beside Results - Go Rumors Google awarded patent for Google Instant/Social Search - Fortune Ten times more applications for Google Apps customers - Official Google Blog
Google Wins Patent To Display Thumbnails Beside Results - Go Rumors Google awarded patent for Google Instant/Social Search - Fortune Ten times more applications for Google Apps customers - Official Google Blog
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...
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...
New Yahoo Search Marketing Patent Applications, SEO by the Sea Miva Gets VerticalMiva has added a vertical offering to its pay-per-click ad network in the U.S.and U.K. Consumer & Media Strategeries at Microsoft, Jupiter Research
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.
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 Mountain View search giant.
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...
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.
Yahoo also had published two patent applications which explore social networks, and previewing, inviting and granting authorization for others to view specific pages within that social network. New Microsoft patent applications include one that...
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 1, 2006 - Microsoft Answers? There are a number of new patent applications from Yahoo, including one that utilizes concept networks to understand the intention behind a user's query; another describing an...
There are a number of new patent applications from Yahoo, including one that utilizes concept networks to understand the intention behind a user's query; another describing an addition to a user interface that lets a searcher define the context...
This Microsoft patent application describes the use of a second set of training data that doesn't depend upon user interaction, but rather looks at anchor text "to be a surrogate for the missing user feedback data.
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.
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...
New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains Marchex Acquires Local-Vertical Search Company Openlist - New York-based Openlist, a local, vertical search engine, was acquired by Marchex...
Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead America's Network reports that journalists in the UK are set to boycott Google's shot across the Microsoft Excel bow with Google Spreadsheets; Google faces another book...
US Patent Application 20060112089 The process described in the next patent application provides a way for a user to set up their browser interface so that dynamic information may be added to, and updated on their browser interface from different...