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There were some interesting new patent applications this week from Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM, but nothing on the scale of the outpouring of intellectual property published and assigned to Google - I uncovered 15 new patent applications from the...
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.
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...
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. Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 - Google Patent Filings by the Dozen
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. The Firefox extension can be viewed here, it allows you to see on the...
Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. US Patent Application 20060143197 US Patent Application 20060143159 US Patent Application 20060143158 US Patent Application 20060143208
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: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains New Search Patent Applications: May 23, 2006 - Yahoo Wallets, Microsoft Answers, and Google Phrases
Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead IBM aims to improve text search by preprocessing and maintaining relationship data between documents, delivers a means of spellchecking URLs, describes a process for...
Two Amazon employees have had a patent application published which may correct misspellings in queries in order to return results to searchers. US Patent 7,054,882 US Patent Application 20060112081 US Patent Application 20060112068
Some new patents and patent applications from the last week cover a wide range of search related topics. The first patent application I have listed for Yahoo is under their name in the US Patent and Trademark assignment database.
Some research on a recent trilogy of Go Daddy patent applications raised those questions in my mind. The patent filings involve adding additional reputation information to published whois data, and letting others use the information for a number...
patents and patent applications to see if I could find something similar to what Yahoo! This patent application was filed April 5, 2004 and published December 9, 2004, earlier than Google's Anticipated query generation and processing in a search...
With Google quiet, a recent flurry of activity burst out at the US Patent and Trademark Office from Microsoft and IBM, including the granting of a patent on a music search engine, another on searching recorded voice, and patents (and patent...
Patent watchers might be interested in reviewing seven of recently published patent applications from Microsoft that deal with computing a web page ranking, calculating a documents "importance," web search spam, and more.
I just did some quick research and came up with the following list of patent applications (most published within the few weeks) from a few of the major search players and a couple of other companies. With so much attention being placed on each and...
New Patent Apps from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft - If your the type who enjoys reviewing newly published patent applications, Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable lists a bunch of newly published apps that were posted on Cre8asite earlier today.
