Microsoft’s U.S.patent application, “Applying a Model of Persona to Search Results,” outlines a search system that would allow users to search the web as their favorite celebrity. There are no indications that Microsoft plans to develop the...
Yahoo Registers Meal Search Patent Posted by Frank Watson Jun 28, 2008 Bill Slawski, of SEO by The Sea, has uncovered another patent filing. This time Yahoo is applying for a patent for meal search technology.
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.
No mention of Google Office applications are made here, and the patent application was originally filed over a year ago, but the thought crosses my mind that it might be helpful to copy settings from Word to Writely, or from Excel to Google...
Many search engine optimizers regularly monitor search engine patent applications and use this documentation as proof that their methodologies help web pages rank. However, patent applications often offer limited, and even misleading, information...
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...
IBM filed a patent application for building social networks within a business organization, and was granted a patent for a method of checking pages shown in search results for viruses. Microsoft had two new patent applications published, including...
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.
The first of Outland Research's patent applications reranks search results based upon the age or the gender, or both, of a searcher. This last week's patent applications involving search all seem to focus upon users of search engines, and finding...
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. 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. Itself as Web Surfers' Destination, ClickZ
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.
The following patent application explains how such a system might work from the search engine's perspective. Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data, and...
Yahoo adds two more patent applications which use concept units derived from searchers' queries to index the web. US Patent Application 20060123042 US Patent Application 20060120624 US Patent Application 20060122991
New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains New Search Patent Applications: May 23, 2006 - Yahoo Wallets, Microsoft Answers, and Google Phrases
US Patent Application 20060112068 US Patent Application 20060112079 US Patent Application 20060112066 US Patent Application 20060117002 Two Amazon employees have had a patent application published which may correct misspellings in queries in order...
In this patent application, mobile Speech Search developer V-Enable describes a new method of navigation through the web using the motion of a wireless device. Microsoft published a patent application for a community based answering system, and...
