Microsoft’s U.S.patent application, “Applying a Model of Persona to Search Results,” outlines a search system that would allow users to search the web as their favorite celebrity. There are no indications that Microsoft plans to develop the...
Local.com Gets Location-based Search Patent Apartment Guide Launches Mobile GPS Search Application Users are now allowed to download applications designed specifically for the device. This has generated a slew of location-based social networks (as...
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.
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...
Search engine staff know that their patent applications will be read by competitors and SEOs," he continued. You don't actually have to use the features in the patent to be granted a patent, nor does anyone have to disclose all features in a patent...
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...
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.
The first of Outland Research's patent applications reranks search results based upon the age or the gender, or both, of a searcher. This last week's patent applications involving search all seem to focus upon users of search engines, and finding...
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. Today's search podcast covers a report of $800 million lost to click fraud...
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. Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog...
Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. US Patent Application 20060143158 This first Yahoo patent application went quickly from filing to publication in four months.
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.
The following patent application explains how such a system might work from the search engine's perspective. Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data, and...
US Patent Application 20060122968 Yahoo adds two more patent applications which use concept units derived from searchers' queries to index the web. US Patent Application 20060120624 US Patent Application 20060123042
