One of the more notable places you can find direct similarities between the NSTIC system and Google is in the Google patent applications. However, and even more insidious is the application of this Identity Ecosystem to the Search Paradigm.
Patent and Trademark Office. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent and Trademark Office that protects you even further and makes your trademark incontestable. One way to increase the strength of your trademark is to file an application to register...
Yahoo Registers Meal Search Patent Posted by Frank Watson Jun 28, 2008 Bill Slawski, of SEO by The Sea, has uncovered another patent filing. This time Yahoo is applying for a patent for meal search technology.
Thanks to the to the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), trademark applications can be filed entirely online. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is where you go to file for trademarks that need to be protected.
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.
No mention of Google Office applications are made here, and the patent application was originally filed over a year ago, but the thought crosses my mind that it might be helpful to copy settings from Word to Writely, or from Excel to Google...
IBM filed a patent application for building social networks within a business organization, and was granted a patent for a method of checking pages shown in search results for viruses. Microsoft had two new patent applications published, including...
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...
One of the inventors listed in the following patent application, Tomas Gunnarsson, is a Google Desktop Software Engineer according to a post he made in the Google Blog on a "quick search" for Desktop Search.
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...
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...
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.
Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 - Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. Google files patents for shopping offline with online assistance, a...
Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 - Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now...
Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. US Patent Application 20060143197 US Patent Application 20060143158 US Patent Application 20060143176 US Patent Application 20060143159
New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains New Search Patent Applications: May 23, 2006 - Yahoo Wallets, Microsoft Answers, and Google Phrases
The inventors listed in the following patent application are Amazon.com employees, though the document hasn't been assigned to Amazon, and examples within the document include searches for books within an online bookstore.
That leads him to a patent application we referenced last week named content evaluation by Microsoft. Bill Slawski has an excellent write up on web spam through the eyes of patent applications and published papers.
Seven Recently Published Patent Applications from Microsoft Deal with Computation of Web Page Ranking, Calculating a Document's Importance, and Search Spam Detection and More Google's Patent Application for Click-to-Call Advertising Published
