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...
As a result, current functionality and future business plans shouldn’t be inferred from our patent applications. Based on the language in the patent, I’ll make a few educated guesses: Despite Facebook’s denial that the data is used to target...
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.
Google Files GPay Patent - Mobile Payment MethodSeems Google is getting ready to launch another of their G ideas. Web Analytics for Facebook: Applications, FBML, and Facebook Engagement? SEW Experts: 7 Tips for High Value AnalyticsEric Enge gives...
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...
Clickability Scores, Media Plans, and Historic Click-throughs: More Yahoo Search Marketing Patent Applications, SEO by the Sea Google Patent on Extended Search Indexes, SEO by the Sea Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the...
New Yahoo Search Marketing Patent Applications, SEO by the Sea Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the Web: Search Engine Watch Forums "If you have a press release you want to put out with hopes that it will be mentioned on...
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.
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.
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.
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 Mountain View search giant.
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...
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...
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.
New Search Patent Applications: August 8, 2006 - Focusing on the SearcherThis 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 age or the gender, or both, of a searcher. Microsoft's patent applications allow a user to further refine results based upon user feedback.
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...
