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Data is collected by crawling the Web, focusing on corporate Web sites, press releases, electronic news services, SEC filings and other online sources. Mercora offers a Web application for casual listeners, playlist software for DJs, and a mobile...
This post looks at Google's filings. The claims section in each application different and explain how the different documents play a role in the overall personalization scheme. US Patent Application 20060224448
A few new patent filings from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.com. There have been a few patent filings from Amazon on recommendation systems. This next patent application is a companion filing to that one, and relies upon the same technology to help...
Search Patent Filings: August 28, 2006 - Identifying Web Spam and Adult Images Yahoo patent filings include one detailing bidding for placement in paid search filed this past April, another that details a very interactive environment for watching...
Yahoo patent filings include one detailing bidding for placement in paid search filed this past April, another that details a very interactive environment for watching television programming, a third describing a method of soliciting consumer...
The following patent application covers some very similar ground as a white paper from Microsoft Research titled Detecting Spam Web Pages through Content Analysis (pdf). It looks at a number of ways that web spam might be identified from the...
US Patent Application 20060179441 One of the inventors listed in the following patent application, Tomas Gunnarsson, is a Google Desktop Software Engineer according to a post he made in the Google Blog on a "quick search" for Desktop Search.
Microsoft also has a pair of patent filings on interesting ways to refine search results after a search has been conducted. US Patent Application 20060173806 US Patent Application 20060173817 US Patent Application 20060173820
US Patent Application 20060149461 US Patent Application 20060149742 US Patent Application 20060149625 US Patent Application 20060149623 The process detailed in the next patent application aims at improving the relevancy of ads, and helping in...
Yahoo matches, and raises with five patent filings. Some queries involve the use of concepts and units, as described in at least five Yahoo patent filings (see previous patent posts in the Yahoo sections from Yahoo Units and Microsoft Redundancy...
As noted there, the patent is one of three filings that use the unit concept to help understand and index pages. US Patent Application 20060123042 US Patent Application 20060122991 US Patent Application 20060120624
New Search Patents: May 3, 2006 - Microsoft and IBM Dominate with Recent Search Filings In Yahoo We Trust - The Link Spam Patent Application Presentations from the Future of Web Search, in Barcelona When it was announced earlier this year that Dr.
This first document may be the star of this batch of search filings, and if you decide to try to read through any of these, this may be a good choice. The system comprises: a web application server for serving a web page that includes personalized...
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) filings offered us additions to Google phrase searching and predictive queries, some enhancements to interacting with ecommerce sites that appear to be from Yahoo, a Microsoft Answers system and a page...
The patent filings involve adding additional reputation information to published whois data, and letting others use the information for a number of reasons, including letting search engines incorporate that reputation information into their...
IBM has a handful of new filings at the USTPO, including; a way to search recorded speech, a method to predict search result quality in response to different queries, an icon based user interface allowing searchers to choose amongst categories of...
If you look at the "Risks Related to Our Business and Industry" section of many of Google's SEC filings (including their IPO filing) you'll read: The providers of the software application used to create these documents could engineer the document...
You can track the SEC filings here or here. Yahoo and Verity are partnering to create an application called Verity Enterprise Web Search. Ask Jeeves has launched a beta desktop search application, capping off a very busy year in the desktop search...
In this post, links to SEC filings, along with details of other Google insiders selling. According to their research, about 1.3 million unique users visited Google's Desktop Search page in the first two weeks of its release, with nearly half (640...
Overture's public filings kicked off Wall Street's interest in search, as my Search Engine Marketing Finally Getting Respect article from 2001 explains. Google's public filings will likely add fuel to the fire.
