Month: September 2020

Calculating Featured Snippet Answer Scores An update this week to a patent tells us how Google may score featured snippet answers. When a search engine ranks search results in response to a query, it may use a combination of query dependant and query-independent ranking signals to determine those rankings. A query dependant signal may depend … Read more

I’ve written a couple of posts about patents at Google on personalized knowledge graphs (a topic worth thinking about seriously). Personalized Knowledge Graphs are structured information about entities personally related to a particular searcher, the attributes of those entities, the classifications of those entities, and knowledge about relationships between those entities and between the entities … Read more