Google has filed for a patent, which, if developed, could bring a wearable smartwatch device to its hardware lines. The patent application, filed with the US PTO, describes a device that would be placed on a wristband and would include one or more...
Microsoft beats Google in patent ruling over Xbox technology – the InquirerMicrosoft has won a $1.8 million ruling in the first of two patent lawsuits against Google's Motorola Mobility over the use of its technology in the Xbox console.
SEO by the SeaGoogle has been granted a new patent, "Determining relevance scores for locations. What you told us – DiggAs Digg works on a Google Reader replacement, it shares survey results: 80 percent check Google Reader many times a day; 40...
A recent ComputerWorld article has revealed new insights into Google’s news-ranking algorithm, based on information from a patent filed by Google in February 2012. The patent reveals the following potential factors considered by Google’s ranking...
One of the more notable places you can find direct similarities between the NSTIC system and Google is in the Google patent applications. Changing of Google Privacy Policy from US to EU. Sure Google, PayPal and Equifax were federally credentialed...
A 2004 patent application by Google suggested they planned on assigning greater relevance to links in such positions and I wrote a little more about personalized PageRank in “Is Google Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfram?
This notion is the subject of a Google patent on the concept of the Reasonable Surfer. The patent talks about the likelihood of a link getting clicked based on its placement on the page. The classic way that people have determined link value is by...
Bill Slawski wrote an excellent post on a patent for a method of detecting commercial queries, secured by Google in October 2011. The patent application describes the exact match domain problem: a company may attempt to “trick” the search engine...
Google's Motorola Mobility division has filed a patent infringement claim against Apple over the Siri voice control and location-based services used on iPhones and iPads. We would like to settle these patent matters, but Apple's unwillingness to...
It wouldn't hurt to keep a tinfoil hat handy as well… Look no further than this Microsoft patent that talks about spying on SEO forums. Automated queries to Google: Tools on your site, probably a bad idea.
Page's claim that the system isn't vital to the firm comes as Google prepares to part with $12.5 billion for the purchase of Motorola, chiefly to take ownership of the firm's patent portfolio to help it fend off numerous patent lawsuits being...
Note: there have been some updates to the original PageRank patent, which Bill Slawski covers in detail here. The theory behind PageRank became part of the basis of the Google algorithm, and continues to be so today.
If this seems a bit familiar, it may be because Yahoo and Google were in the midst of a patent fight over pay-per-click and bidding advertising patents Yahoo acquired when it bought Overture, eventually settling for 2.7 million shares of stock...
From patent analysis to viewing "what may be", Bill Slawski does a bang-up job of summarizing the areas many of us get glassy-eyed thinking about. FREE – Google Website Optimizer: Run A/B tests free with this tool from Google.
The stance taken by Yahoo could open up yet another swathe of litigation in the technology sector, where numerous firms including Google, Apple and Microsoft are embroiled in patent battles as firms look to impinge on competitors' ability to...
Along with approving the deal between Google and Motorola, the DOJ signed off on the proposed purchase of Nortel's patent holdings by a group which includes Apple and Microsoft. This is an important milestone in the approval process and it moves us...
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.
Meanwhile, UK telecommunications company BT has opened another patent case that targets a wide array of Google services and Microsoft has won an android patent case against Motorola. BT sues Google over alleged patent infringements in Android
In a patent application approved Tuesday, Google used the review/comments systems used by Amazon and Slashdot to support their method and gain approval for their "invention". The interesting aspect of the patent is the use of +1 as part of the...
Schmidt reportedly promised that Google will continue to provide its Taiwanese handset partners with patent access and any other information they may need to fight off Microsoft's advances. Schmidt may not like that patent law rewards the first to...
