If the phone has GPS, the Maps application on the phone sends the GPS coordinates along with the cell ID to the Google location server. Over millions of such updates, across multiple phones, carriers, and times, the server clusters the GPS updates...
Bill Slawski Uncovers Patent Info About Google Quality Scoring"A trio of patent applications from Google look at estimating the likelihood that an advertisement is a good one, in a method that goes beyond counting click-through-rates (CTR).
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...
Rewriting parts of pages through a proxy server, for use with mobile devices, is the focus of this patent granted to Google. Microsoft published a couple of patent applications, one which looks at using game playing to provide user rankings for web...
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...
Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 - Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Server Slowdown Problems: Possible Causes Lead To Comments, RSS, Cron, and Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content.
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.
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...
The system comprises: a web application server for serving a web page that includes personalized search results for a user requesting the web page; a content repository for storing content for the web page; a profiling system for dynamically...
Some new patents and patent applications from the last week cover a wide range of search related topics. These are called "active" terms in that they may be tied to some different actions, such as being links leading to other pages, or to Yahoo's...
Some research on a recent trilogy of Go Daddy patent applications raised those questions in my mind. The Go Daddy patent applications were originally filed on October 29, 2004. A "good" name server may have a mix of different domains from different...
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...
One of the original Outride patent applications, I'll be looking at some new patent applications later in the week, and some other recently issued patents. The query server consults each access control list associated with each document server...
Patent Applications from Yahoo, Microsoft and Others. Wouldn't it in fact be easier to get rankings in all those countries if the site was sitting on a server in the US? Don't switch the new server to 'live' until the new site is completely finished.
Patents and Recently Published Patent Applications ResourceShelf.com, June 8, 2003 http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2003_06_08_resourceshelfextra_archive.html/#200399800 Why am I getting an "Internal Server Error" when I try to submit to the...
The Grub crawler visits a list of essentially random URLs sent down from a central server. This will work even if your content is on a shared server -- just put the file in the same directory where your main or home page resides.
The Grub crawler visits a list of essentially random URLs sent down from a central server. Patent Wars! The Search Engine Report, Oct.http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/97/10-patent.html All the way back in 1997, Infoseek (technology now owned...
To date, most of the spidering engines have labeled IP detection as against the rules, but client pressure to solve such indexing issues via "black magic" or server side technology is on the rise. Trial Near in Patent Case on Key Internet Technology.
