Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
A new patent application from Microsoft looks at content generated to spam search engines. Here’s the problem, as noted in the patent filing: In the best case, search engine optimizers help web site designers generate content that is well-structured, topical, and rich in relevant keywords or query terms. Unfortunately, some search engine optimizers go well … Read more
Ok, so adult content may not be your cup of tea, and you may not really care. Bear with me here. It’s not really so much filtering adult content that I’m interested in either, but instead how a search engine algorithm can use queries and user behavior to decide whether or not to filter something. … Read more
Back in September, 2001, Google acquired the technological assets of Outride, which specialized in online information retrieval technologies. A white paper from the Outride group explains fairly well one of the approaches that they were taking in the field of personalized search (pdf). We posit that at least two different computational techniques need to be … Read more
Google has acquired a mobile company that appears to have a rich technical background in face and object recognition. A hat tip to Ionut Alex. Chitu, who writes about the acquisition of Neven Vision by Google, and makes some very good points on why Neven Vision was a great choice when it comes to bringing … Read more
Back in July, I looked at a patent from Google that described issuing coupons from stores in Google’s Holy Grail of Shopping? It appears that Google has taken the first of what could be a number of steps towards making the processes described in that patent come true, with news that they are enabling advertisers … Read more