Posted by Frank Watson Jul 10, 2008 David Utter over at WebProNews has written an insightful piece on the possibility Microsoft wants Yahoo mainly for the old Overture patents it holds, in particular patent 361.
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...
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.
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...
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).
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 Consumer & Media Strategeries at Microsoft, Jupiter Research Digital Point Forums "Based on my experience competing with high-volume search keywords, SEO takes a lot of time and effort.
New Yahoo Search Marketing Patent Applications, SEO by the Sea Consumer & Media Strategeries at Microsoft, Jupiter Research Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search...
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.
New Search Patent Applications: August 8, 2006 - Focusing on the SearcherThis last week's patent applications involving search all seem to focus upon users of search engines, and finding ways to fulfill intentions behind searches.
New Search Patent Applications: August 8, 2006 - Focusing on the Searcher 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 age or the gender, or both, of a searcher. Microsoft's patent applications allow a user to further refine results based upon user feedback.
The titles of two Microsoft patent applications are very similar, but the processes described aren't. Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search.
New Search Patent Applications: June 19, 2006 - Autolinking, and Better Advertising through Deletion Predictions Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data...
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: May 23, 2006 - Yahoo Wallets, Microsoft Answers, and Google Phrases New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains
New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains An event sponsored by Yahoo and the Web Research Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Future of Web Search took place on May 19-20, 2006...
Search Patent Applications: May 23, 2006 - Yahoo Wallets, Microsoft Answers,
and Google Phrases A number of patent applications published last week proved intriguing. Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) filings offered us additions to Google...