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The talk of the SEO town these days, outside of Penguins, is all about the Hummingbird. To be honest, Google didn't want us to know about it and they said it should have no impact on rankings or placement - so I am not so clear on why SEOs need (not saying they shouldn't) obsess about it.
Any change Google makes is important, but if your rankings changed because of Hummingbird, (1) you wouldn't know it and (2) Google messed up. At least, that is what Google wants us to believe.
Anyway, a WebmasterWorld thread has pulled together the patent documents by Google that they think are related to the Hummingbird algorithm. I am not saying if they are or not, but they think they are.
The Related Hummingbird Patent Documents by Google include:
- Synonym Identification Based on Co-occurring Terms explained by seobythesea.com
- Evaluation of Substitute Terms explained by seobythesea.com
- Generalized Edit Distance for Queries explained by seobythesea.com
- Search Entity Transition Matrix and Applications of the Transition Matrix explained by seobythesea.com
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Comments:
Rob Kissell
10/14/2013 01:20 pm
Interesting! No Google Doodle today? Hmm... not politically sensitive enough subject matter I guess, I appreciate your work though Barry!
rocketraja
10/14/2013 02:59 pm
Patents are way to increase stock price and build confidence among investors of the company. i find no other use of it.. where is the guarantee that its true ? seo algorithms is projected everywhere as rocket science but the fact its not.
rybacrorn
10/14/2013 04:36 pm
This headline is so much better than "Link building is dead"
xoxo
10/15/2013 10:44 am
it so hard to understand what google want to do. But it easy to see what serp quality has lowest priority for them. They just hunting for links, but not for ANY quality.
Graciousstore
10/16/2013 04:58 am
The hummingbird algorithm is specifically Google's intellectual property so not other search engine can implement it