If you are missing your Gary Price fix, I recommend you check out a post at ResourceShelf. He has his “Search Patent Watch” expanding on several patent applications and awarded patents from Yahoo and Microsoft.
Yahoo Patent Applications:
– Targeted advertisements using time-dependent key search terms
– Search systems and methods using in-line contextual queries
– Automated solicited message detection
Awarded Microsoft Patents:
– User intention modeling for web navigation
– Auto playlist generator
Microsoft Patent Applications:
– Method and system for adaptive categorial presentation of search results
– Life moment tagging and storage
– Categorizing, voting and rating community threads
– Query-based snippet clustering for search result grouping
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