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).
Techdirt considers the impact that a couple of recent Yahoo patent applications filed for in February, and published last week (which I wrote about at SEO by the Sea), might have upon the growth of social networks.
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...
One of the newest patent applications published from Neven Vision, Image-based search engine for mobile phones with camera, lists some possibilities: It sounded like more might be happening than just putting pictures in order, so I tried to see if...
This last week's patent applications involving search all seem to focus upon users of search engines, and finding ways to fulfill intentions behind searches. The first of Outland Research's patent applications reranks search results based upon the...
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 of...
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...
Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search. Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 - Google Patent Filings by the Dozen
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.
The following patent applications primarily look at local search, though some of the processes described within them may have broader reaching implications, such as the one on visual segmentation of information on pages.
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...
Some research on a recent trilogy of Go Daddy patent applications raised those questions in my mind. The patent filings involve adding additional reputation information to published whois data, and letting others use the information for a number...
Bill Slawski has an excellent write up on web spam through the eyes of patent applications and published papers. Anyway, Bill really digs deep into these algorithms and patent applications with links and abstracts pulled of content and video...
Google Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit By Gary Price, Dec. We've learned that about two weeks ago, Google filed a patent infringement lawsuit in U.S. Remember, the Google Deskbar and Google Desktop Search are two different applications.
Here's a selected list of recently awarded search-related patents and recently published patent applications from the U.S. From this page, you can search for patent applications and grants using quick search, advanced search, or search by...
The Search Engine Report, Oct.http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/97/10-patent.html Infoseek holds a patent relating to distributed search, though it's on the technique of ranking results properly among different sources, rather than distributed...
The Search Engine Report, Oct.http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/97/10-patent.html Infoseek holds a patent relating to distributed search, though it's on the technique of ranking results properly among different sources, rather than distributed...
