Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Added: Google Acquired this Dangling Nodes patent (System and method for ranking nodes in a network) from IBM in July 2011 – See: Google’s New Patents from IBM IBM Patents Dangling Nodes: A Way to Process Nodes in a Link Graph, without Links From Them Someone is randomly clicking on links through your site, and … Read more
Calculating PageRank takes a lot of time and computing power. If there was a way to speed up the process, it might make a significant difference to the amount of time that it takes to assign PageRank values to pages. The original patents involving PageRank, Method for node ranking in a linked database (updated) and … Read more
A new patent granted to Google this week, but filed back in 2000, explores a way of grouping together search results that deal with different topics as a result of a search for a specific query, by looking at the shared links pointing to pages within the search results. With the process involved in this … Read more
One of the members of Cre8asite Forums has a couple of sites that he’s filled with images of the locations of his sites. He’s a talented photographer, in addition to a skilled webmaster, and the pictures he has on his site are terrific. He has also placed those images under licenses from Creative Commons. Because … Read more
What are the implications of a search engine deciding that your web site fits within a certain classification? That’s one of the questions that may have been raised with my last post, which looked at a patent application from Microsoft (Microsoft Looks at Category Based Link Weights) and described the assignment of category weights to … Read more