In a patent filed by Yahoo a few years back, (and excellently uncovered and covered by Bill Slawski) signals for success include site engagement metrics and a recognition of user interaction as a key metric to measuring satisfaction.
Update/Correction: Bill Slawski of SEO by the Sea has pointed out to us that the ComputerWorld article is actually based on Google News ranking signals from 2003. As Slawski's "The Traditional News Agency is Dead (On Google News)" points out:
Bill Slawski wrote an excellent post on a patent for a method of detecting commercial queries, secured by Google in October 2011. Slawski points out that a sentence near the end of the patent application opens the process up for uses on other...
Note: there have been some updates to the original PageRank patent, which Bill Slawski covers in detail here. Whenever I'm asked about what I do for a living, I say something like this: "you know those pieces of text that you can click on inside of...
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. On top of that, every day I get requests from people to test or review new resources, think up ideas...
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.
Bill Slawski found a patent granted last week that explores a few different ways Google might use human raters to evaluate which algorithmic changes might produce the best results. PotPieGirl, the blogger who found the original manual, did some...
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...
Bill Slawski first raised questions about the purpose of the patent September 27. Despite Facebook’s denial that the data is used to target consumers with advertisements, the user data they’re collecting and the patent awarded them September 22...
As reported by Bill Slawski, a patent filed by Facebook in February of this year described a technology that "may access a cookie on the user's computer, where the cookie is associated with the social network" and "the third party website and the...
The description doesn’t quite match up 100%, but most patent descriptions are illustrative examples, and the claims sections are the important parts,” wrote Bill Slawski. Patent and Trademark Office filing.
Bill Slawski has also analyzed the Microsoft Patent for Image Rankings (thanks to @mongoosemetrics for sharing this oldie-but-goodie hyperlink). If you're looking for a picture of a certain bird, for example, and perhaps can't remember the exact...
Patrick Altoft and Bill Slawski have both previously written about a Google patent application showing how a search engine can identify inadequate search content based on statistics associated with search queries and then share this information...
Bill Slawski from SEO By The Sea explains that a ranking method based on mouse pointer movements would solve the click-through rate (CTR) classification riddle: users effectively do not necessarily need to click on a link to find the information...
Bill Slawski reports on a new Google patent that manipulates search results based on query patterns and click results. The patent is just making sure the method is theirs. As Bill explains Google can track when people search for a few related terms...
Yahoo Patent App Sheds Light on SEO Priorities Posted by Kevin Newcomb Feb 4, 2009 A recent patent application from Yahoo highlights several factors that Yahoo itself proposes to use for optimizing Web pages for its search engine, according to the...
A recent patent application from Yahoo highlights several factors that Yahoo itself proposes to use for optimizing Web pages for its search engine, according to the ever-vigilant patent-watcher Bill Slawski.
Bill Slawski explains the patent that Yahoo has registered. We soon may be able to give a search engine information on our body size and outstanding features and get true tailored search results for clothing and other dress accessories, if a new...
Reciprocal Links And Yahoo: Some Interesting Reading Posted by Frank Watson Jan 14, 2009 Okay I would not have bothered to read Yahoo's latest patent on reciprocal links if it were not for two blog posts by Bill Slawski and David Harry.
Okay I would not have bothered to read Yahoo's latest patent on reciprocal links if it were not for two blog posts by Bill Slawski and David Harry. These guys thankfully can interpret patent details in a way that does not make my head spin and...
