Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
News and information about search engines and directories on the Web, including patent filings and white papers
What are the most popular top-level domains? At least, which are the ones that show up most on pages indexed in Google? I wondered this yesterday after seeing a news article stating that the registration of .cn (china) top-level domain names topped 1 million for the first time by the end of 2005. The seed … Read more
Some new Microsoft patent applications about the web, and indexing pages, from last week. Keep in mind that these are just patent applications and have not been granted as patents. They may be avenues of approaches that aren’t developed in the future or maybe the direction Microsoft takes. They might be challenged by claims of … Read more
How Google might Add Related Links to Documents I want to preface this blog post by saying that it describes a related links patent application and not necessarily Google’s actual plans. Therefore, what it describes may happen, or it may not. Providing links to related documents On many news sites, publishers will provide related links … Read more
What is Google TextRank? One of the challenges of the Google Book Search project has been to find a way to index all of the books included within the book search project. We don’t know the details of the technology used to index those books. However, some research uncovers interesting information. This November, a post … Read more
Christine Churchill has an article at Search Engine Watch on Understanding Search Engine Patents that’s worth a look. In it, she describes some of the potential pitfalls of placing too much credibility in a patent application released by one of the search engines. It’s a warning worth heeding. In addition, she describes four presentations on … Read more