Google acquired the six patents at issue when it bought Motorola Mobility. What is being done to detect and remove results from larger sites when they don't have unique content that is relevant to a query (e.g.yelp.com results with no reviews...
Eventually, a semantic search engine will be able to get past that limitation, understand the meaning of your question, understand the meaning of those thousands of documents, and then return results that only contain statements that Bill has made...
Search patents are increasingly being used to measure relevance and connections. Google, however, has a hatful of relevant patents that will ensure it has a very big say in how this all plays out. While semantic web has many facets, intrinsically...
Some of the most interesting Google patents were the series on historical elements. Google spam patents: Globally popular words: Another good way to find keyword stuffing is to compare the words on the page to existing query data and known documents.
Google has bought 12 patents relating to “cross-referencing information online, techniques for speeding up Web browsing and online advertising” from Northbrook Digital LLC for an undisclosed sum, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
The actual mechanics of how click data is used is often proprietary, but Google makes it obvious that it uses click data with its patents on systems like "Rank-adjusted content items. This data is available in a few ways, either through the (now...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen believes that most of the Silicon Valley tech giants have built their businesses around technology that he owns the patents on. Google Webmaster Tools Adds Redirect Links, Search Query Info by Frank Watson
Several search engine patents have been filed that indicate page location affects weighting. In the heart of search conference season, there has been great discussion about how the algorithm is diversifying through the integration of social data...
Yahoo 'owns several patents' on Google Instant - The Register Based on a search query, the feature is designed to also return "recommended" users on Twitter. Yandex Adds Image, Video Search To Global Search Engine -Search Engine Land
But, patents relating to software processes don't often spell out the details on the myriad of ways in which the resulting data could be used. Having authored multiple patents and patents-pending, I know that software process patents that will...
Is Microsoft Buying Yahoo For Overture's PPC Patents? 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...
Bill is known throughout the industry for the great work he does examining and writing about search engine patents, which he does on the SEO by the Sea blog. For example, if most users who enter "digital cameras", then "sony digital cameras", and...
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems, Ars Technica Latin America is several years behind more developed Web audiences like the U.S.which means smaller number of actual words in an individual keyword query, making it more difficult in...
Google's Universal Search Patent Application & Assigned Patents from Infoseek, SEO by the Sea Google Planning Query EnhancementsThe first is a technique that will add a supplemental query that Google's algorithm determines may return more relevant...
Googleâ””s Universal Search Patent Application & Assigned Patents from Infoseek, SEO by the Sea To avoid this huge expense, Google's engineers had to find a way to extract the normalized relevance data from each of their various properties, so they...
Though we've noticed in some high-level search engine research and patents, there is a school of thought that will be willing to label pages and sites as spam, period, most issues are not as clear-cut.
Though we've noticed in some high-level search engine research and patents, there is a school of thought that will be willing to label pages and sites as spam, period, most issues are not as clear-cut.
My usual reminder about patents: Some of the processes and technology described in patents are created in house, and some are developed with the assistance of contractors and partners. And sometimes patents are just purchased.
My usual reminder about patents: Some of the processes and technology described in patents are created in house, and some are developed with the assistance of contractors and partners. And sometimes patents are just purchased.
Mining for SEO Gold in Search Engine Patents SearchDay article, Do Patents Point to SEO Gold? Changes For Miserable Failure Query Due To White House Change Maybe, maybe not, said a panel at a recent Search Engine Strategies conference.
