Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Google published three patent applications on Google Notebooks this week, which describe the fundamentals of how the program works and provide a hint at how notebooks may influence some search results. The nice thing about Google notebooks is that they have the potential to be helpful research tools, enabling you to quickly save and organize … Read more
A couple of months back when I was traveling, I wrote a quick post about a new PageRank patent issued to Stanford University on PageRank and asked if anyone would be interested in trying to break it down to see if it had anything interesting in it. David Harry took a look in a post … Read more
A Google Advanced Search that Never Happened If you could limit the results of a search at Google to a specific point of view, would you? Depends upon what I mean by point of view, doesn’t it? I’ll get to that below. A Google patent granted this week shows a screenshot of an advanced search … Read more
What’s a good way to organize the index of a search engine? A way that is fast and returns a lot of relevant results? Maybe one that doesn’t need to be search the whole index to find results? A newly granted patent from Microsoft provides some interesting insights into indexing by document, and how static … Read more
What is the most important part of a page? If a page has images on it, what images are the most important images? If a search engine were to try to understand whether or not any images on the pages of a site were related to each other, how would it go about figuring that … Read more