Google’s Skybox Eye-in-the-Sky Acquisition

As part of the regular business analysis that I do on an ongoing basis, I like to keep an eye out for acquisitions made by search engines and look at the technology that those companies being acquired have filed patents for. When I heard about Google’s acquisition of Skybox, I jumped to the assumption that … Read more

How Google Might Identify Entity Synonyms Using Anchor Text

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Entity Synonyms When Google indexes the Web, it’s often been convenient to think about the search engine running two different methods or approaches that seem to run in parallel. One of those involves the crawling and indexing and ranking of pages on the web (and images, videos, news, podcasts, and other documents). The other approach … Read more