Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Do you use MyYahoo as a portal page every time you access the Web? If you were away from your computer, and had a few minutes to spare, would you consider calling that page, and listening to it over the phone, to get your stock picks, or horoscope, or sports scores? A newly granted patent … Read more
Search engines are getting smarter about the phrases that they see and understand online. For example, Yahoo recently published a patent application that describes several ways they learn about and understand the use of phrases in documents on the Web. Exploring how Yahoo might use phrases to rerank search results may show how they may … Read more
Many patent filings and papers from the search engines discuss ways that they might shuffle around search results to try to provide more relevant responses to people’s searches. Imagine a search engine changing around the results that you see, not based upon the time that a page is published, but rather on some estimate of … Read more
Google was awarded a design patent today on an interesting looking interface, in a patent titled Display device showing user interface. Design patents sometimes leave you guessing as to what it is that you are actually looking at, and they can appear somewhat unusual. With two sliders, and what seems to be a circular area … Read more
Recently I wrote about a Yahoo adaptation of PageRank, called User Sensitive PageRank, which required that a lot of data be collected about visitors to web sites, including their clicking and browsing habits. A couple of Yahoo patent applications from last week refer to User Sensitive PageRank while describing the collection of user data and … Read more