Google acquired the six patents at issue when it bought Motorola Mobility. YouTube is testing a new auto-generated playlist feature called YouTube Mix to aid in video discovery – The Next WebService lets you watch 50 videos continuously.
Some of the most interesting Google patents were the series on historical elements. Google spam patents: We're here to watch the evolution of the algos and adapt accordingly. Watch on-site links: From internal link ratios to anchors and outbound...
Microsoft has filed a formal complaint against Motorola with the European Commission (EC) over what it sees as a clear abuse of its industry standard patents, with Google's tacit backing. As it turns out, there are at least 2,300 other patents...
The Motorola Mobility purchase was motivated, in part, by Google’s desire to protect itself with its patents. You can watch Page and Schmidt’s full presentation below from Zeitgeist Americas 2011 on YouTube.
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.
In a nod toward recent ridiculous patents, Groupon announced it filed a patent on april fools pranks. Download the Gmail actions printable guide or watch the Gmail Motion Product Video: The brainy but fun searchengine that no one can remember the...
How Google is changing the way they integrate Twitter results into search results and how Bing is evolving their inclusion of Facebook Like data in SERPs.comScore, Nielsen Battling Over Online Measurement Patents by Frank Watson
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. Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Dec.to Dec.as...
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, sued 11 corporations, including Google/YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, and AOL, claiming they built their businesses off of technology he owns the patents on. Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news...
David Harry, aka TheGypsy, has interpreted yet another series of Google patents that give insight into International and local search results. There are three patents he mentions, starting with one about "ordering of search results based .
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...
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...
Both Microsoft and Yahoo have several search-related patents – combining them may well allow them to finally narrow the "Google gap" (the huge difference in percentage of the search share market). We report the top search marketing news daily at...
On Researching Patents, and a New Google Patent Filing on Expanded Snippets, SEM Clubhouse He is also the news search, blog search and PR correspondent for the SearchEngineWatch Blog. We report the top search marketing news daily at the Search...
On Researching Patents, and a New Google Patent Filing on Expanded Snippets, SEM Clubhouse Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the SearchEngineWatch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
Google’s 10 Oddest Patents, SEO by the Sea We've collected all the search marketing news from selected posts to the SearchEngineWatch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.
Google's 10 Oddest Patents, SEO by the Sea Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the SearchEngineWatch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: SEW Experts: Optimizing Pages for New and Improved Search...
Bill Slawski Uncovers Possible Barter System Patent At MicrosoftMicrosoft has applied for a bunch of patents covering click fraud, and what could be the groundwork for a barter system between publishers and advertisers.
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems, Ars Technica Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the SearchEngineWatch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems, Ars Technica We report the top search marketing news daily at the SearchEngineWatch Blog. Grant Crowell is the Senior Project Director for Grantastic Designs, and a contributor to the Search...