One of the more notable places you can find direct similarities between the NSTIC system and Google is in the Google patent applications. These pilot programs are meant to explore differing implementations of the NSTIC and how they work, then...
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 patent portfolio,” said Tim Armstrong, AOL’s Chairman and...
Google awarded patent for Google Instant/Social Search - Fortune Google Wins Patent To Display Thumbnails Beside Results - Go Rumors Ten times more applications for Google Apps customers - Official Google Blog
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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.
Landing Pages and Google's Website Optimizer Patent Applications, SEO by the Sea SEW Experts: Search Marketing Staffing CrisisThere's a tradeoff most people face in the process of hiring a search marketing team: hire people with less business...
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is where you go to file for trademarks that need to be protected. Thanks to the to the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), trademark applications can be filed entirely online.
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.
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...
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.
A good number of white papers and patent applications published since the filing of this patent have looked at user queries and user behavior in fairly complex ways, such as chaining user queries together in sessions to identify user intent, and...
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...
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.
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 of...
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...
Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 - Google Patent Filings by the Dozen Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search.
New Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 - Google Patent Filings by the Dozen Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search.
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...
Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. US Patent Application 20060143158 This Microsoft patent application describes the use of a second set of training data that doesn't depend upon user...
