Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'patent'

Venture Beat reports Google has won the patent for using location in an advertising system, or something called geo-targeting. Let me quote the article: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded the search giant a patent for using location in...

Posted on March 3, 2010 6:28 AM

If you are a patent junky, then you may like this relatively new one. A patent application submitted November 19th by Google named artificial anchor for a document may shed some light on the jump down Google snippets or anchor...

Posted on November 30, 2009 8:50 AM

A newish patent application from Yahoo named Identifying excessively reciprocal links among web entities was filed on January 8, 2009. The patent inventors include Priyank Garg and Tim Converse of Yahoo, both well-known search engineers at Yahoo. Of course, we...

Posted on January 13, 2009 8:28 AM

WebmasterWorld administrator, Tedster, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld discussing an updated Google patent named Information retrieval based on historical data. This is one of the more popular Google documents over the years, where much of the Sandbox theories came from....

Posted on September 19, 2008 7:59 AM

Bill Slawski has written up another interesting piece about how search engines substitute other search terms for yours depending on past user behavior. Of course, this is related to a patent he discovered that was filed by Yahoo. Bill explains...

Posted on May 19, 2008 10:18 AM

Bill Slawski recently wrote an interesting post entitled Yahoo Replaces PageRank Assumptions with User Data. In the article, he discusses a "User Sensitive PageRank" patent application filed by Yahoo that addresses the flaws with PageRank. These flaws include the assumption...

Posted on January 17, 2008 9:01 AM

The news this past weekend is that a patent filed by Google in June has surfaced where the search engine giant intends to use more sophisticated search techniques to discern text within images. InformationWeek talks about the patent, known as...

Posted on January 7, 2008 9:27 AM

What SEO doesn't like talking about spam? Now add a newly granted Google patent that talks about spam and an SEO is in heaven! Bill at created a Cre8asite Forums thread about a new granted patent named Methods and systems...

Posted on November 29, 2007 7:00 AM

Is it ten years too late? According to numerous reports, Northeastern university is suing Google over a patent. The patent holders are looking for Google to pay the intellectual property fees. Forum members are awaiting the results of the trial....

Posted on November 13, 2007 9:26 AM

Bill Slawski, resident patent guru, has discovered yet another patent application about Google AdWords. The discussion has been brought to the attention of the folks at WebmasterWorld. According to Bill, there are 44 factors in total that might be used...

Posted on July 9, 2007 9:07 AM

Google has released four new document patent applications. All four are on the topic of scoring a document. One is based on scoring documents on query analysis, an other on traffic analysis, an other on link criteria and the last...

Posted on April 27, 2007 7:30 AM

Bill Slawski started a Cre8asite Forums thread on the topic of a new patent application he spotted named Ranking blog documents. Bill expained this document in great detail at his blog post named Positive and Negative Quality Ranking Factors from...

Posted on March 19, 2007 7:12 AM

MSGraph at WebmasterWorld posted a link to a Google Patent filed in August 22, 2005 with authors including Matt Cutts named removing documents. The patent basically describes how you can remove documents using Google personalized search, which I described in...

Posted on February 23, 2007 7:51 AM

Another duplicate content thread with a different perspective at WebmasterWorld. Google has been awarded a patent for a 2001 submission of an application named Methods and apparatus for estimating similarity. The patent is a relatively short read compared to others,...

Posted on January 3, 2007 7:57 AM

The blogs have been discussing a new Google patent application named Detecting spam documents in a phrase based information retrieval system. The abstract reads; An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified...

Posted on January 2, 2007 7:31 AM

The eleventh edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. We were able to discuss in detail about half of the topics I wanted. This week, we had on Eric Ward to discuss one of the most discussed topics...

Posted on December 20, 2006 7:01 AM

The Google Blog announced the release of Google Patent Search. You can search for any patent, and if Google indexed it from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) then hopefully it will come up. Google uses a combination...

Posted on December 14, 2006 7:12 AM