Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
A patent granted to Google this past fall explores how the search engine looks for patterns on Web pages to use to find facts on the Web to fill up Google’s data repository (Knowledge Base). I recently wrote a series of posts about Google collecting data to enable them to answer Direct answers. starting with … Read more Google on Crawling the Web of Data
What is a Media Consumption History Google published a foreign patent at WIPO today that has an interesting perspective to it. When someone performs a search that involves a specific entity, their search may be influenced by the search engine’s knowledge of their past interactions with content involving that entity, or their media consumption history. … Read more Google Media Consumption History Patent Filed
When someone searches the web and asks a question such as “what is the capital of Poland” or “what is the birth date of George Washington” a web search engine such as Google may not be very helpful in providing an answer if it provides a list of web pages that might answer that query … Read more How Google was Corroborating Facts for Featured Snippets
In January, Microsoft introduced a new build of Windows 10, which it will be giving away for free for non-enterprise users running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. One of the features on this update is a personal digital assistant that goes by the name Cortana. It’s one of the most anticipated features of the new … Read more Some Patents Behind Microsoft’s Personal Assistant Cortana