One of the more notable places you can find direct similarities between the NSTIC system and Google is in the Google patent applications. These pilot programs are meant to explore differing implementations of the NSTIC and how they work, then...
There are no indications that Microsoft plans to develop the technology outlined in the patent, as applications are filed all the time. Microsoft’s U.S.patent application, “Applying a Model of Persona to Search Results,” outlines a search system...
Described as “an inside peek at how Google groups keywords by concept,” the initial Google Sets patent filing from April 2003 was the brainchild of two rockstar engineers from the early days at Google.
Google awarded patent for Google Instant/Social Search - Fortune Google Wins Patent To Display Thumbnails Beside Results - Go Rumors Ten times more applications for Google Apps customers - Official Google Blog
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...
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).
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...
However, patent applications often offer limited, and even misleading, information.What search engines put into patents is often more like brainstorming," said Glick. Many search engine optimizers regularly monitor search engine patent applications...
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...
Microsoft published a couple of patent applications, one which looks at using game playing to provide user rankings for web pages, and a method of providing contextual advertisements for non-textual content.
Microsoft's patent applications allow a user to further refine results based upon user feedback. This last week's patent applications involving search all seem to focus upon users of search engines, and finding ways to fulfill intentions behind...
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...
New Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 - Google Patent Filings by the Dozen Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search.
Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search. The following patent applications primarily look at local search, though some of the processes described...
New Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 - Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Near You Google files patents for shopping offline with online assistance, a secondary map in Google Maps, and an updated review aggregator.
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. Microsoft looks to anchor text to help train a machine learning...
This Microsoft patent application describes the use of a second set of training data that doesn't depend upon user interaction, but rather looks at anchor text "to be a surrogate for the missing user feedback data.
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.
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.
