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Bill Slawski

2006

Industry

More than Organizing Photos? Google Acquires Neven Vision

Adrian Graham, Picasa’s Product Manager, made a post Tuesday morning on the Official Google Blog titled A better way to…

16 Aug 2006

Industry

Microsoft Attacks Click Spam by Looking at Noisy Behavior

Sites in search results that rank highly while serving visitors only ads are the target of a number of papers…

14 Aug 2006

Industry

New Search Patent Applications: August 8, 2006 – Focusing on the Searcher

This last week’s patent applications involving search all seem to focus upon users of search engines, and finding ways to…

08 Aug 2006

Industry

New Search Patent Applications: August 1, 2006 – Microsoft Answers?

There are a number of new patent applications from Yahoo, including one that utilizes concept networks to understand the intention…

01 Aug 2006

Industry

New Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 – Google Patent Filings by the Dozen

Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search. (1)…

11 Jul 2006

Industry

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.…

05 Jul 2006

PPC

Ending Click Fraud with Pay-Per-Percentage

In Pay-Per-Percentage vs. PPC, Shimon Sandler points out an interesting new paper from the folks at Microsoft Research – Pay-Per-Percentage…

03 Jul 2006

Industry

New Search Patent Applications: June 27, 2006 – Searching Amongst Malicious Web Sites

Microsoft’s patent applications from the end of last week include ways for search engines to scan malicious web sites, clustering…

27 Jun 2006

Industry

New Search Patents: June 22, 2006 – Google File System, Microsoft Blocks, and Yahoo Autonotifications

Google patents the Google File System, Microsoft claims a Functional Object Model for mobile devices, and Yahoo! (Overture) describes an…

22 Jun 2006

Industry

New Search Patent Applications: June 19, 2006 – Autolinking, and Better Advertising through Deletion Predictions

Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data, and…

19 Jun 2006

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