SEO by the Sea

Google Plus Roots are Showing in Grouptivity Patent Filings

Bill Slawski — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:33:22 +0000

Google has been busy over the past couple of years acquiring a good number of small startups, including some that may help or have helped contribute features to Google Plus, such as Fridge, Tweet counting SocialGrapple, people sorting Katango, the team behind JustSpotted, social ranking PostRank, and social movie recommendation service fflick.

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Google Acquires Cuil Patent Applications

Bill Slawski — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:41:14 +0000

According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) assignment database, Google has acquired the pending patent applications of one time search rival Cuil, touted when launched as a potential Google Killer.

On July 28, 2008, the search engine Cuil went live with hopes from many that it would rival Google in technological [...]

97 Hewlett-Packard Patents Assigned to Google

Bill Slawski — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:56:36 +0000

At Hewlett-Packard’s global partner summit in Las Vegas yesterday, President and CEO Meg Whitman gave a keynote presentation on the state of the company and made a prediction about Google’s Android operating system:

We decided to contribute WebOS to the open source community and this will take three to four years to play out,” [...]

How Google Might Filter Blog Posts from Google Blog Search

Bill Slawski — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:57:52 +0000

Google was granted a patent yesterday on Blog Search, and how the search engine might filter blog posts out of blog search based upon a number of factors. The patent was originally filed in 2006, and it’s the first patent filing I’ve seen from Google that uses the term “splog.” The screenshot from the [...]

Big Data at Google

Bill Slawski — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:34:25 +0000

According to Google’s Director of Research, Peter Norvig, if you look at Google Trends for trends related to “full moon” or “ice cream”, you’ll see that Google searches for those terms imitate actual physical trends in the world. With a very large number of queries performed for those terms, searches for “full moon” peak [...]

10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 9 – From Ten Blue Links to Blended and Universal Search

Bill Slawski — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:42:52 +0000

In the early days of Google, when you performed a search, the results you received were just links to pages found on the Web, showing page titles, snippets, and URLs. Google started adding other types of searches to its Web search, such as:

July, 2001 – Image Search September, 2002 – News search December, [...]

Google Acquires Fiber Optic Networking Patents (Kansas City and then the World?)

Bill Slawski — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:46:56 +0000

A few days ago, I asked the question, Is Google Aiming at Building Faster Networks and Data Transmissions? Google had acquired some interesting patent applications that have the potential to increase the speed and quality of data transmissions. An even more recent intellectual property acquisition by Google points to a growing interest in [...]

10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 8 – Assigning Geographic Relevance to Web Pages

Bill Slawski — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:55:30 +0000

How much might one page on a website influence the rankings of other pages? When I joined an agency in 2005, our focus was on rankings for individual pages – optimizing their content for specific terms and phrases, and making sure that they had links from other pages, both onsite and off. I found [...]