Google acquired the six patents at issue when it bought Motorola Mobility. If you write a blog post, you’ve got something to say, you’re not just creating words and synonyms. Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) – Search Engine...
So I study patents from Google, Bing and other Information Retrieval scientists. If you have a client that is willing to share their knowledge via a blog, or guest writing somewhere, that certainly helps their SEO.
One other area of Google’s business practices under review by the FTC was Google’s use of patents. Google allegedly “reneged on its FRAND [fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory] commitments and pursued – or threatened to pursue – injunctions...
As for potential social signals that could be used for search rankings, Bill Slawski highlighted a post about Google's acquisition of some Groupivity/Appmail patents. Looking at some of the so-called 'FriendRank' patents from Google, they talk...
SEO by the Sea has a good rundown of Google’s patents related to combating web spam. The top organic result is a completely empty blog (that same blog currently ranks third on Bing for the same search) (UPDATE: I'm no longer seeing this result on...
The Envision IP blog also reviewed 700 of AOL's patents believed to be up for grabs prior to the sale. AOL will retain patents related to advertising, search, social networking, content generation and management, mapping and others, and Microsoft...
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...
According to a blog post by Bill Slawski at SEO By the Sea that references US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filings, IBM has agreed to give Google 188 granted patents and another 29 pending patent applications.
US Court Approves Google's $900M Bid for Nortel Patents - PCWorld Search Marketing Blog Closing May 31 - Yahoo Search Marketing Blog ClickEquations Blog How to Research Negative Keywords - PPC Blog Campaign and Budget Management Improvements in the...
PatentsSearch in Google's Sidebar - Google Operating System Temporary Outage Update - Yahoo Mail Blog Twitter Introduces Text Ads - Digital Inspiration Technology Blog Easy - Yahoo Mobile Blog Here's a roundup of today's other search news and...
Google Self Driving Cars Get Jumpstart from IBM Patents - SEO by the Sea The taxman searcheth - Official Google Blog Shepherding the wind - Official Google Blog Official Google Blog Here's a roundup of today's other search news and headlines from...
Google to Get $25 Million Breakup Fee If Rival Wins Bid for Nortel Patents - Bloomberg Bing Angry Birds Twitter Giveaway - Bing SearchBlog A new way to share local product availability with your customers - Google Merchant Blog
Patents and innovation - Official Google Blog You're Not the Boss of Me: Why SEO Confuses and Threatens Some Execs - Bruce Clay Blog SEO Friendly CMS, Tips On Building Them - Vertical Leap Blog See your location history dashboard and more with...
Google Acquires Virtual Post-it Notes Patents - SEO by the Sea SES New York 2011 Roundup - TopRank Online Marketing Blog Accessing More Than 10,000 Rows of Data Using The API - Google Analytics Blog What Larry Page really needs to do to return...
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. New hacked site notifications in search results - Google Webmaster Central Blog
Science & Technology (green energy, solar, patents, biodiversity, sustainability) SearchEngineWatch.com's Top 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2010 Chatroulette, a web site that allows users to connect to and video chat with random strangers, was the...
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. Play "Decode Jay-Z with Bing" and win - Bing Search...
He also has hinted that Instant infringes on many of Yahoo's patents. A post on comScore's blog explained how they defined searches with Google Instant:
we have developed a priority scoring system that allows us to identify search results with...
Yahoo 'owns several patents' on Google Instant - The Register Three million businesses have gone Google: celebrating growth, innovation and security - Official Google Blog Bing Maps Blog Based on a search query, the feature is designed to also...