Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'patent application'

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

Marcia at WebmasterWorld discovered a patent application filed by Google about known highly-ranked queries. The abstract is complex, but in case you want a read: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture providing one or more query revisers,...

Posted on February 5, 2008 7:24 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

Bill Slawski discovered a patent application by Microsoft that seeks to "restrict the results for queries to be from blog pages." Does that mean that blogging has had its day? Well, if the key word is restrict and Microsoft is...

Posted on December 24, 2007 8:59 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