According to a blog post by Bill Slawski at SEO By the Sea that references US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filings, IBM has agreed to give Google 188 granted patents and another 29 pending patent applications.
As a result, current functionality and future business plans shouldn’t be inferred from our patent applications. Well, considering we’ve just learned Facebook keeps a file several hundreds of pages long, with sensitive information users don’t even...
Patent and Trademark Office. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent and Trademark Office that protects you even further and makes your trademark incontestable. If you're doing business internationally, you can register your mark with the USPTO under a...
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.
Landing Pages and Google's Website Optimizer Patent Applications, SEO by the Sea SEO & Ninja LinkBuilding > A Chat with ‘We Build Pages' Jim Boykin, Hobo SEO Are Your Landing Pages Lean, Mean Conversion Machines?
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Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is where you go to file for trademarks that need to be protected. Thanks to the to the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), trademark applications can be filed entirely online.
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? Yellow Pages Provider Testing Voice-Enabled Local SearchPrint...
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 A few sites earned “good SEO thinking” grades for choosing to...
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...
The major search engines are all frequent filers of patent applications. While most of these documents make for fascinating reading, do they offer any useful clues for optimizing web pages that might give search marketers an edge?
The major search engines are all frequent filers of patent applications. While most of these documents make for fascinating reading, do they offer any useful clues for optimizing web pages that might give search marketers an edge?
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.
