Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Just what in the world is Yahoo’s vision of their growth and future? That’s the thought that popped into my mind a couple of days ago after seeing some newly published patent applications from Yahoo seemingly developed, at least in part, by folks who worked at a company that Yahoo! acquired previously. The company was … Read more
Back in July, I wrote about a patent application from Google that may have described how Google attempts to find the web pages that should be shown with local search results, Authority Documents for Google’s Local Search. One of the places that a local search service might look for business information about an enterprise online … Read more
The transformation of Web 2.0 facial recognition software service Riya into shopping visual search engine Like.com is a remarkable story, involving some interesting technology. Like.com has just launched a couple of days ago, but the company behind it almost may have become a Google acquisition last year. Riya started out with a great deal of … Read more
Mike Blumenthal, of Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local, and I have been discussing Google Local and the seeming inertia that keeps it from being the heavily traveled online destination that it could become. As part of that discussion, I came up with a quick list of why Google Local might not be as accurate … Read more
As set forth above, FIG. 1 illustrates a system for evaluating whether results produced by a search engine are spam results. The system and method utilize a combination of automated spam identification techniques and user feedback to identify results as spam and adjust result rankings accordingly. …from a System and method for spam identification I … Read more