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Acquisitions
- 97 Hewlett-Packard Patents Assigned to Google
- Amazon Acquisitions and Investments
- Another Google purchase, in 3D software
- Apple Augmented Reality Improved with Acquisition of Project Tango Collaborator Flyby Media
- Did Google acquire Game Maker and Distributor CiiNow?
- Did Google Acquire the Tech (or Patents) for Google Related from Northbrook Digital LLC?
- Doubleclick + Google: Looking at Some of the Doubleclick Patent Filings
- Early Google Acquisitions
- Early Yahoo Acquisitions (the 1990s)
- Google Acquires 55 Yahoo! Patent Filings
- Google Acquires Adscape Media: Interactive Online Gaming Advertisement and Gaming System Developers
- Google Acquires Case Study Patents from International Tech Broadcaster
- Google Acquires Circuit City Home Video Rental Patents
- Google Acquires Cuil Patent Applications
- Google Acquires Eye Tracking Startup Eyefluence and its Technology
- Google Acquires Facet Technology Mapping and Street Level Object Recognition Patents
- Google Acquires Fiber Optic Networking Patents (Kansas City and then the World?)
- Google Acquires Girafa.com’s Image Preview Patents
- Google Acquires Glasses Patents
- Google Acquires iLOR Patent Used to Sue Google
- Google Acquires Jotspot, Inc. & Wiki Patent Application
- Google Acquires Mangosoft’s Distributed Directory Service Patents for $3.2 Million
- Google Acquires Meebo and Meebo Patent Filings
- Google Acquires More IBM Patents In September
- Google Acquires Non-Strategic Mosaid Technologies Patents
- Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents in July
- Google Acquires Patent on Speeding up SSL on Networks
- Google Acquires Significant 3G Patents
- Google Acquires Swimming Goggle Patent
- Google Acquires Unisys Patents, Including a Java API Patent
- Google Acquires Webfonts Presentation Developers, Zenter, Inc.
- Google Acquisition of On2 Technologies for Video Technology, and for Hantro Mobile Technology, Too
- Google Beefs Up Patent Portfolio with Wireless Patents from Proxim
- Google Gets Smarter with Named Entities: Acquires MetaWeb
- Google on Converting Spreadsheets to Web Applications
- Google Patent Acquisition From IBM: Google Acquires over 1,000 Patents from IBM in August
- Google Picks Up Hardware and Media Patents from Outland Research
- Google to Move StreetViews Indoors with Mobile Camera Device?
- Google’s Acquisition of Zetawire brings Electronic Wallets Nearer
- Google’s Green Border Technologies Patent Filings
- Google’s Marratech Software Acquisition and Patent Filings
- Google’s New Acquisition Postini and their Patent Filings
- Google’s New Patents from IBM
- Google’s Presentation Patent Application (via Tonic Systems)
- Google’s Quiet Acquisition of Transformic, Inc.
- Google’s Skybox Eye-in-the-Sky Acquisition
- How Google Might Enable You to Translate Your Webpages Through a Proxy Server
- IBM Assigns 217 More Patent Filings to Google including Wireless Phones and Javascript Widgets
- Implications of Google’s Acquisition of WideVine
- Is Google Aiming at Building Faster Networks and Data Transmissions?
- Just Where is Yahoo Going? New and Old Acquisitions
- Kodak Not Enough: Google Acquires Printer and Camera Patents from Silverbrook
- Lycos to Sell Off Patents?
- MetaRAM’s Memory Chip Patents Assigned to Google
- Microsoft Bing, with Powerset Inside
- Microsoft launches new search, buys Onfolio
- Patent Filings from Google’s Acquisition of Apture and Katango: Highlighted Search, YouTube Sliders, and Intelligent Social Media Agents?
- The Google Acquisition of Innuvo, and the Google Web Toolkit
- Twitter Acquisitions
- Twitter’s New Patent Trove (943 Patents) from IBM
- With Wavii, Did Google Acquire the Future of Web Search?
- Wow! Google Acquires Wowd Search Patents
- Xerox Helps Google Fill in Some Search Gaps: From Pre-Web to Post Panda
- Yahoo Acquires Fysix Corp, Enters Partnership with Right Media
- Yahoo Acquisitions – The Middle Years
- Yahoo Acquisitions since Overture
- Yahoo Assigns 2648 Patents to Mystery Excalibur IP, LLC Group
Local SEO and Maps
- A Google Approach to Improving Location Information Accuracy
- Address Completion in Google Local Search
- Ambiguous Locations on Google
- Apple vs. Google vs. Yahoo on Location Awareness and Parking
- Assigning Geographical Locations to Web Pages
- Authority Pages for Businesses in Google’s Local Search
- Better Business Location Search using OCR with Street Views
- Big Maps, Big Data: Google’s Keyhole Flatfile Patent
- Building an Online Community in Your Community
- Building Google’s Knowledge Base and Identifying Locations in Web Pages
- Community Endorsements for Local Searches
- Crowdsourcing Behind New Apple Local Search Patent
- Customized Travel Directions with Google
- Do Search Click-Throughs Help Determine Where a Page Ranks?
- Driving Directions a Local Search Ranking Factor?
- Driving Directions vs. Reviews as Ranking Signals for Google Maps
- Ending Gridlock with Google Driving Assistance (Zipdash Re-Emerges)
- Exploring Yahoo’s Photosharing Applications
- Forget Search, Yahoo May Start Helping You Find Parking Spaces
- Geographic Coding in Google Location Searches
- Google a Cab – Intelligent Fleet Management
- Google Ads on Handheld Devices, For Local Area Advertisements
- Google and Visual Segmentation for Local Search
- Google Approach to Making Online Ratings Easier…
- Google Barcodes and Place Rank Transforming Local Search
- Google Boosts the Importance of Local Search
- Google Coupons the Start of Something Bigger
- Google Earth & Maps Advertising Patent Application
- Google Earth Video, Layers, Environmental Activism, and Links
- Google Fights Keyword-Stuffed Business Names Using a Surprisingness Value
- Google Geocoding Addresses
- Google Granted Patent on Google Maps in Web Search Results
- Google Instant: Tradeoffs Include Less Implied Local Results?
- Google Local for Mobile Patent Applications
- Google Local One Box Results
- Google Local OneBox Midpage Results?
- Google Local Search Glossary
- Google Local Search in China: Export Restrictions, Filtering Sensitive Keywords, and Limited Data
- Google Local Search, Categories, and the What and Where of Local Map Listings
- Google Maps Using Photos to Identify Business Listing Spam?
- Google May Check to See if People Go to Geographic Locations Google May Recommend
- Google May Diminish Reviews of Places You Stop Visiting
- Google May Insert Links to a Digital Map System on Web Pages
- Google on Reading Text in Images from Street Views, Stores and Museums
- Google Patent Granted on Customizing Travel Directions
- Google Tackles Map Spam for Businesses
- Google to Map Road Quality?
- Google to Provide Better Accuracy in Location-Based Services?
- Google Transit Trip Planner in Toronto?
- Google’s Holy Grail of Shopping?
- Google’s Mobile Location History
- Google’s New Sentiment Phrase Snippets for Google Places
- Google’s Place Rank and Interestingness – Ranking Geographic Entities in Maps/Earth for Display
- Google’s Query-Based Circles Patent
- Google’s Streetview Cars Learn to Read?
- How Geographical Intent on a Page may help Optimize Pages Better
- How Google Enforces Category Diversity for Some Local Search Results
- How Google Finds Known For Terms for Entities
- How Google May Create Diverse Search Results by Merging Local and Web Search Results
- How Google May Identify Implicitly Local Queries
- How Google May Respond to Fake Business Spam
- How Google Might Enable Property Owner Advertising in Streetviews Images
- How Google Might Use Query Logs to Find Entity Locations
- How Local Business Names May be Used by Google in Search Ranking Signals
- How Reputation Management May Work at Google
- How Search Engines May Look at Queries Which Include Locations
- How Search Engines Might Divine the Intent behind Regional Queries vs. Global Queries
- How You May Help Google Mapping Indoor Spaces
- Human Friendly Driving Directions From Google?
- Innovating Product Reviews at Google
- Interactive Maps in Yahoo Trip Planner
- Invasive Google Location-Based Service Cancelled
- Is Social Mapping the Future?
- Local Search at Rest, and Local in Motion
- Local Search Interviews
- Locally Prominent Semantic Features
- Location Information: Location Still Matters on the Web
- Location Prominence and Differences in Local OneBox and Google Maps
- Location Prominence at Google in Ranking Businesses at a Location
- Location Searches at Google
- Location Sensitivity in Google Local Search
- Looking for a Library on Google Local
- Microsoft Virtual Earth and Local Search Patent Applications
- Might Local Search be Improved by Breaking it Into Smaller Topics?
- Mysterious Google Interface Design
- New Blog on Local Search
- New Reason to Submit Businesses to Google Maps: Google Navigator and Personal Information Management Integration?
- Opinion Summaries in Google Maps Reviews
- Optimizing Buildings for Driving Directions
- Patent Filing on Interactive Elements of Google’s Keyhole Markup Language
- Patent on Identifying Erroneous Business Listings in Google Maps
- Pizza at the Center of New York: Relevancy, Google Local, and Local Results in Organic Searches
- Popular Times for Businesses Learned by Looking at Location History
- Private Maps from Yahoo to Let Friends Track Each Other
- Ranking factors for Your Google Earth Video and Other Objects
- Ranking Local Businesses Based Upon Quality Measures including Travel Time
- Regional Data and Global Data at Google Data Centers
- Smarter Google Maps Would Add Movement and Templates for Tasks
- Structured Information in Google’s Local Search
- The Growing Power of Online Reviews
- Touring Google Maps
- Uber Assigns Nine Mapping Patents to Microsoft
- Using a Local Category Synonym to Refine Queries
- Was Google Maps a Proof of Concept for Google’s Knowledge Base Efforts?
- When Might Google Show Local Search Information in Web Search Results?
- Which Newark is Dominant? Classification of Ambiguous Geographical References
- Yahoo Cooking with Gas: Food Search on the Web
- Yahoo Local vs Google Maps Beatdown
- Yahoo Patent Filings on Indexing and Advertising Using Geographic Boundaries
- Yahoo Tackles Geographic Challenges of Web Search Results
- Yahoo Tactics Associating Geographic Search with Searcher Location
Mobile and Mobile Search Marketing
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
- 13 New Yahoo Search Marketing Patent Applications
- A Goto.com Time Capsule: Looking at a Four Year Old Vision of Paid Search
- A Time and Season for Search: How Data Mining Can Influence Search Advertising
- Advertising on an Electronic Billboard via the web
- Apple to Embed Ads and Marketing Information in iTunes?
- Are Two Queries Better Than One in Targeting Search Advertisements?
- Associating Search Ads with Links Instead of Keywords
- Automated Search Ad Approval Process
- Clickability Scores, Media Plans, and Historic Click-throughs: More Yahoo Search Marketing Patent Applications
- Contextual Ads on Parked Domains
- Could You Be Delivering Ads of Your Choosing for Google in the Future?
- Detecting Online Commercial Intent (OCI) in Queries and Web Pages
- Exploring Click and Pay to Call (CPTC) Google Phone Ads
- Geo Targeted Advertising for Google Maps and Google Earth
- Google Ad Configurations, Quality Scores, and Ad Types
- Google Ads Based upon Toolbar Collected User Behavior Data
- Google Advertising On Billboards, Kiosks, TV, and Other Displays
- Google Advertising on TV, Podcasts, and Radio
- Google AdWords Select Interface Design Patent Granted
- Google at the Crime Scene: Profiling Websites, Estimating Traffic, and Combating Click Fraud
- Google Games Patent Filing on Targeted Advertisements
- Google Health: Advertising to Physicians and Privacy Concerns?
- Google Holiday Logos and Ads Patent Application
- Google on Improving Adsense/Adwords
- Google on Measuring Impressions of In-Game Advertisements
- Google Patent Filing Looks at Trademarks and Adwords
- Google’s Legitimacy Ratings: Should a Search Engine Determine the Legitimacy of Advertisers and Content Providers?
- Google’s Paid Search Human Evaluators
- Google’s Patent Application on Advertising Offline
- Google’s Product Recommendation Widget Patent
- Google’s Scoring for Content-Relevant Advertisements
- Google, Paid Links, and the FTC Staff Letter On WOM
- How Google Might Advertise on Social Networks
- How Google Might Determine Web Page Categories
- How Google Might Handle Fraudulent Adwords Advertising
- How Google Rejects Annoying Advertisements and Pages
- Landing Pages and Google’s Website Optimizer Patent Applications
- Letting Advertisers Decide Upon Values of Ads: Impressions, Click-Throughs, and Pay-Per-Action
- Measuring Google TV Advertising and Privacy
- Microsoft and localized media delivery based upon site location
- Monetizing Google Platforms?
- Paid Search Results and Query Expansion using Synonyms and Related Concepts
- Papers from the Eighth ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce 2007
- Patent Applications on Estimating, Rating, and Using Quality Scores for Google Ads
- Pay Per Percentage Patent Filed by Microsoft
- Search, Buy, Receive Valuable Points, Provide Feedback to Rank Advertisements
- Secure Conversion Tracking at Google
- SEO, PPC, and the US government
- Targeted Audio Advertising with Google Part 3 – Conclusion
- Targeted Audio Advertising with Google, Part 1 – Examples
- The future of ads on phones?
- The Suitability of Websites for Participation in an Advertising Network
- User Behaviour: Deletion Predictions
- What Google Advertisments on Mobile Phones Might Look Like
- Will We Ever See Google Personal Ads?
- Would Google Offer Embedded Search Links to Site Owners?
- Would You Rent Your Rooftop to Google To Show Ads Upon?
- Yahoo on Collecting User Data for Web Site Profiling
- Yahoo Search Marketing Ads: Distribution and Propagation, Reports, and Alerts
- Yahoo! Contextual Advertisements in Print Publications
- Yahoo’s Clickable Map Advertising with Product Inventory Displays
- Yahoo’s Universal Advertisement Services Architecture
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents, Part 5 – Phrase Based Indexing
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 2 – The Original Historical Data Patent Filing and its Children
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 3 – Classifying Web Blocks with Linguistic Features
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 7 – Sets, Semantic Closeness, Segmentation, and Webtables
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 8 – Assigning Geographic Relevance to Web Pages
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 9 – From Ten Blue Links to Blended and Universal Search
- 10 SEO Questions
- 100 Best SEO Documents of All Time, part 4
- 20 More Ways that Search Engines May Rerank Search Results
- 20 Ways Search Engines May Rerank Search Results
- 2016 Important Google Patents for SEO
- A New Search Results Evaluation Model from Google
- A Phrase Posting List and Phrase Based Indexing
- A Replacement for PageRank?
- A Whole Lot of Wikipedia
- After Authorship Markup, Will Google Give Us Author Badges Too?
- An Expansion of Importance Scores for Web Page Rankings?
- Answer Boxes, Trigger Terms and Enriched Search Results
- Are Google Custom Search Engines Influencing Google Web Search?
- Ask.com on Trends, Freshness, Personalization, and Better Search Results
- Ask.com Patent on Optimizing Search Results Pages Based Upon User Activity
- Assumptions behind Web Searches
- Author Markup, Schema.org and Patents, Oh My!
- Authoritative Search Results in Google Searches?
- Avoiding Misinformation While Learning from Search Related Patents
- Bad Dates in Google Snippets: Hey Google, I’ve Blogged a Little Since 2005!
- Baseball, SEO, and Redirects: Throwing the Gyroball
- Big Data at Google
- Bill’s Most Excellent Top 10 SEO Rules
- Bing’s Categorized Search Results
- Breaking Pages Apart: What Automatic Segmentation of Webpages Might Mean to Design and SEO
- Calculating Search Rankings with User Web Traffic Data
- Can Web Search Use Wikipedia to Understand References to Names?
- Can You Automate and Patent SEO?
- Category Relevant Search Results, Query Suggestions, and Advertisements Based on Location?
- Compound Words in Search Advertising and SEO
- Content Planning for Search Engine Optimization
- Creating an SEO Content Inventory
- Do Domain Ages Affect Search Rankings?
- Do Search Engines Hate Blogs? Microsoft Explores an Algorithm to Identify Blog Pages
- Do Search Engines Look at Keywords in URLs?
- Do Search Engines Use Social Media to Discover New Topics?
- Does Google Use Reachability Scores in Ranking Resources?
- Does Page Load Time influence SEO?
- Does the Ownership of Redirected URLs Matter to Search Engines?
- Domain Collapsing, Indented Pages, and Search Results
- Duplicate Content Issues and Search Engines
- Duplicate Webpages at Different URLs on a Site
- Early Panda and Concept Templates
- Entity Associations with Websites and Related Entities
- Entity Mentions are Good: Brand Mentions are not the New Link Building
- Evaluating the Relevancy of Search Results Based upon Position
- Evolving Google Search Algorithms
- Expanded Snippets, Google’s Instant Previews, and the Costs and Benefits of Making Changes
- Five Years of Google Ranking Signals
- Followup on Google’s Historical Data Patent Application
- Future SEO and Paid Ads with Google Glasses?
- Generic Content Ratings Based on Location
- GMail Rank and the Importance of Good Subject Lines
- Good Luck Searching for San Francisco Skateboarding Laws
- Good SEO
- Google and Large Scale Data Models Like Panda
- Google Authorship Markup Patent Applications Published
- Google Cross-Device Tracking and Audio Watermarking
- Google Defines Semantic Closeness as a Ranking Signal
- Google Determining Search Authority Pages and Propagating Authority to Related Pages
- Google Event Finder
- Google Files Patent for Understanding Multiple URLs for the Same Page
- Google Granted Patent on Hostname Mirrors
- Google Granted Patent on Using What You Watch on TV as a Ranking Signal
- Google Malware Detection Using Document Classification
- Google Omits Needless Words (Boilerplate)
- Google on Crawling Websites
- Google on Multi-Tiered Indexing and a Document Processing System
- Google on Using Named Entity Disambiguation to Make Searches Smarter
- Google Patent Granted on Duplicate Content Detection in a Web Crawler System
- Google Patent Granted on Polite Web Crawling
- Google Patent on Displaying Breadcrumb Links in Search Results
- Google Patent on Extended Search Indexes
- Google Patents Anchor Text Snippets
- Google Patents Click-Through User Feedback on Search Results to Improve Rankings
- Google Patents Context Vectors to Improve Search
- Google Patents on Author Signature Values and Topic Authority Scores
- Google Phrase-Based Indexing Patent Granted
- Google Plus Box Patent Application
- Google Product Search and Learning about New Product Lines
- Google Quality Scores for Publishers: The Carrot and the Stick?
- Google Ranking Comment Scores and Commentors’ Reputations
- Google Research Paper on Online Reviews for Merchants and Products
- Google Reviews: Reputation + Quality + Snippets + Clustering
- Google Search Query Refinements Patent Updated
- Google Search Result Annotations
- Google Stopwords and Stop-Phrases
- Google Subscribed Links Patent: Why Do Some OneBox Results Require No Subscription?
- Google Synonyms Update
- Google to Help Content Creators Find Unauthorized Duplicated Text, Images, Audio, and Video?
- Google to Offer Combined Content (Paid and Organic) Search Results
- Google TrustRank
- Google Universal Search 2200 In a Digital Assistant
- Google Universal Search Patent Granted
- Google Webmaster Tools Patent on Crawl Rates
- Google’s Exact Match Domains Patent (Detecting Commercial Queries)
- Google’s Forum Search Results
- Google’s Human Evaluators, Local Search, and Web Search Algorithm Testing
- Google’s Inverted Index of the Web
- Google’s New Freshness Update: Social Media Has Changed the Expectations of Searchers
- Google’s New Review Search Option and Sentiment Analysis
- Google’s Panda Granted a Patent on Ranking Search Results
- Google’s Paraphrase-Based Indexing, Part 1
- Google’s Paraphrase-Based Indexing, Part 2
- Google’s Patent on Site Speed as a Ranking Signal
- Google’s Quality Score Patent: The Birth of Panda?
- Google’s Query Analysis and Reranking of Search Results
- Google’s Show More Results (Plusbox) Patent
- Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Patents on Interpreting Dynamic Page URLs
- Googles Page Segmentation Patent Granted
- Has Advertising Information Been Used by Google in Ranking Pages in Search Results?
- Heading Elements and the Folly of SEO Expert Ranking Lists
- How a Search Engine May Choose Search Snippets
- How a Search Engine May Measure Search Results Quality
- How a Search Engine May Rerank a Page Based on Web Page Credibility
- How A Search Engine Might Classify Sensitive Web Pages
- How a Search Engine Might Fight Googlebombing
- How a Search Engine Might Handle Singular and Plural Queries
- How a Search Engine Might Rerank Search Results Based upon Topics
- How a Search Engine Might Search Nicknames and Given Names
- How a Search Engine Might Use Linguistic Features of Web Page Blocks to Improve Search Results
- How a Search Engine Might Use Synonyms to Rewrite Search Queries
- How a Search Engine Might Weigh Pages with Relevant Annotations Higher in Search Results
- How Classification of Page Elements and Search Results May Influence Alternative Titles and Snippets Displayed in Google
- How Demand Media May Target Keywords for Profitability
- How Does Google Know the Language of a Query?
- How does Google Pick Search Snippets for Your Pages to Show in Results?
- How Google Identifies Primary Versions of Duplicate Content
- How Google is Refining Search Queries the Orion Way
- How Google May Boost Search Rankings for Document Category Keywords
- How Google May Calculate a Site Quality Score (from Navneet Panda)
- How Google May Choose Sitelinks in Search Results Based upon Visual or Functional Significance (Updated)
- How Google May Classify Pages Using Hierarchical Categories in URLs
- How Google May Classify Sites as Low Quality Sites
- How Google May Create and Use Synthetic Queries
- How Google May Create Augmented Content
- How Google May Demote Some Search Results for Subsequent Related Searches
- How Google May Rank Websites Based Upon Their Databases Answering Queries
- How Google May Reform Queries Based on Query Session Co-Occurrence
- How Google May Rewrite Queries
- How Google May Select Data Repository Sources Based Upon Keywords
- How Google May Substitute Query Terms with Co-Occurrence
- How Google May Transform Your Search into Multiple Related Searches
- How Google May Use Categories as a Search Ranking Factor
- How Google Might Choose the Most Relevant Reviews to Display
- How Google Might Classify Queries Differently at Different Data Centers
- How Google Might Generate Search Results Snippets
- How Google Might Identify Transient Content on Webpages
- How Google Might Introduce Job, Recipe, and Other Search Modes into Web Search Results
- How Google Might Rank Pages Based upon User Behavior Information
- How Google Might Top Search Results with Additional Information
- How Google Might Track Webpage Changes
- How Google Universal Search and Blended Results May Work
- How Search Engines Can Do Object Block Ranking
- How Search Engines May Provide Searchers with Related Search Queries
- How Search Engines May Rank User-Generated Content
- How Search Engines May Use Knowledge Base Information for Underserved Queries
- How Search Engines Might Expand Abbreviations in Queries
- How Search Engines Might Identify and Handle Soft 404 pages and Login-Required Pages
- How Search Query Burstiness Could Increase Page Rankings
- How Statistics May be Used to Identify Search Ranking Features
- How to Personalize Web Search
- How Yahoo Might Automate SEO
- Hummingbird and Author Rank Authority
- IBM and Shadow Pages
- IBM Tackles Searching Hypertext
- Improved Document Classification from Google for Rankings and Personalized Search
- Improving Text Segmentation for Displaying Advertisements and Filtering Search Results
- Improving the Wikipedia results for Search Engine Optimization
- Indexing Recent Content in Search Engines
- Is Google Measuring Our Reading Speed of Web Documents?
- Is Microsoft Removing Web Results When the Same Page Also Appears in Paid Results?
- Is Ranking Search Results the Panda Patent?
- Is Your Site Faster than a Fortune 100 Company?
- Jim Hedger’s Interview with Jill Whalen
- Language Matching Ranking in Search Results
- Learning SEO by Looking at Anomalies
- Low Quality Content at Google
- Making Search More Efficient: A little about caching and prefetching
- Mapping the Deep Web
- Measuring User Engagement, with Examples from Yahoo
- Microsoft Granted Patent on Vision-Based Document Segmentation (VIPS)
- Microsoft on Index Partitioning
- Microsoft on Reranking Search Results Based Upon Your Calendar
- Microsoft Using Blocks to Understand Which Are the Most Important Images
- Microsoft’s Approach to Identifying Quality Search Results Based on User Feedback?
- Missing Content in Search Engines and Difficult Queries
- Most Important SEO Patents Part 10: Just the Beginning
- Mouse Pointer Placement May Influence Google Search Rankings, Advertisement Placement, and Oneboxes
- Move over Google Author Rank, Make way for Google Authoritative Rank
- Move Over TrustRank, Make Room for Trust Buttons
- New Google Approach to Indexing and Stopwords
- New Google Process for Detecting Near Duplicate Content
- New Panda Update; New Panda Patent Application
- Next Step After XML Sitemaps: User-Assisted Web Crawlers?
- Not All Anchor Text is Equal and other Co-Citation Observations
- Nuance Search-Related Patent Applications Published
- On Materiality and Search Engines
- On Rewriting the Wealth of Nations
- On Search Engine Relevance
- On-Device Machine Learning and Prediction
- PageRank 2020
- Panda and Penguin go sledding
- Personalized Search Results at Google
- Playing the Odds: How Probable Meanings May Influence Search Engine Rankings
- PostRank and the Importance of Social Engagement Data to SEO
- Predicting SEO Changes in Rankings, Algorithms, and Penalties
- Query Classification from User Data
- Ranking Events in Google Search Results
- Ranking Webpages Based on Word Relationships (Co-Occurrence)
- Recent Readings on SEO, Search, and Rankings
- Relationships between Search Entities
- Rerank Search Results Another 10 Ways
- Revisiting Google’s Information Retrieval Based Upon Historical Data
- Search Engine Archeology
- Search Engine Authority Ranking vs. Popularity Ranking
- Search Engine Classification and Assignment of Categories
- Search Engine Robots Sharing Cookies?
- Search Engineers Home Pages and Research Profile Pages
- Search Engines and Polysemous Words
- Search Engines Crawling FAQs to Learn How to Answer Questions?
- Search Engines Evaluating Search Results
- Search Engines Extracting Table Data on the Web
- Search Engines May Adjust Rankings based on Click and Query Log Patterns
- Search Pogosticking and Search Previews
- Search Result Snippets and the Perception of Search Quality
- Search roundup
- Search Suggestions from Previously Submitted Searcher Queries
- Search Taxonomies to Answer Questions on Webpages
- Searching Google for Big Panda and Finding Decision Trees
- Seed Sites for Search Engine Web Crawls
- Semantic Query Information at Google
- SEO from Google’s Direct Answers
- SEO Implications of New Matching Approach for Google Ads?
- SEO is Undead 1 (Links and Keyword Proximity)
- SEO is Undead Again (Profiles, Phrases, Entities, and Language Models)
- SEO Quiz
- Should Webmasters Pick Their Own Quicklinks in Search Results?
- Should You be Doing Concept Research Instead of Keyword Research?
- Should You Rely upon Search Spiders to Rewrite Your Web Addresses?
- Son of SEO is Undead (Google Caffeine and New Product Refinements)
- Study Concludes Robots.txt Files Should be Replaced
- Taxonomic Classifications to Better Understand the Meanings of Words on Pages
- Teaching Computers to Read Newspapers: How a Search Engine Might Use OCR to Index Complex Printed Pages
- The competitive keyword game
- The Evolution of Google Ratings (Experts Delegating Authority)?
- The Evolution of Search Results into Query Portals
- The Expertise of Google Custom Search Engines vs. the Wisdom of Crowds
- The Google Hummingbird Update and the Likely Patent Behind Hummingbird
- The Google Panda Patent?
- The Impact of Content Change on Search Engine Rankings
- The Importance of Navigation
- The Importance of Page Layout in SEO
- The Importance of the Journey: Search Trails and Destination Pages
- The Incomplete Google Ranking Signals, Part 1
- The Real Problem with Borders Books is Search
- Time to Add Query Breadth to Your SEO Glossary?
- Top 10 Search Engine Patents to Know About from 2019
- Topical Search Results at Google?
- Tracking Trending Information on the Web
- Travel Related Photographs For a Travel Search Engine
- Twitter Poll – How Does Google Index Content on the Web?
- Universal Search Updated at Google
- Updating Google’s Historical Data Patent, Part 1 – Freshness
- Updating Google’s Historical Data Patent, Part 2 – Changing Content
- User Behavior Data Google May Use to Influence Search Rankings
- Using Ngram Phrase Models to Generate Site Quality Scores
- Using Quality Ratings to Rank Web Pages By Google
- Vertical Creep into Regular Search Results in Google
- Web Browsing History Better Search Engine Ranking Signal than PageRank?
- Web Page Segmentation, and Identifying the Most Important Block
- What are the Top Phrases for Your Website?
- When Choosing an eCommerce System, Remember the Search Engines
- Where Google Definitions Come From
- Which Sections of Your Web Pages Might Search Engines Ignore?
- Who Knew the Web Would Suck.com? Promotion in the Days Before Search Engines
- Why a Search Engine Might Choose Something Other Than Meta Descriptions for Page Summaries in Search Results
- Why a Search Engine Might Cluster Concepts to Improve Search Results
- Why Google Shows Dynamic Search Snippets
- Why Sometimes Best Search Results aren’t Always Top Search Results
- Will Keywords be Replaced by Topics for Some Searches?
- XML Sitemaps Help Index Fresh Content Quicker
- Yahoo on Segmenting Web Sites into Topical Hierarchies
- Yahoo Phrase Based Indexing in a Nutshell
- Yahoo Research Looks at Templates and Search Engine Indexing
- Yahoo Site Links: Quicklinks for Navigational Queries
- Yahoo Study Shows Search Responsible for 1 in 5 Pageviews Online
- Yahoo Web Page Segmentation: Distinguishing Noise from Information
- Yahoo’s ‘Universal Search’ and Vertical Search Suggestions
Search Engine Spam
- A Document Level Classifier and Google Spam Identification
- Are Search Engines Doing SEO Forum Mining to Find Web Spam?
- Fighting search spam with algorithms
- Future of Web Search Conference Videos
- Google Fighting Phishing Websites
- Google Maps Using Photos to Identify Business Listing Spam?
- Google on Webspam, Doorway Pages, and Manipulative Articles
- Google Patent Attacks Business Spam
- Google Patent Granted on Web Link Spam
- Google Patent on Hidden Text and Links
- Google Patents Identifying User Location Spam
- Google Praises SEO, Condemns Web Spam, and Rolls Out an Algorithm Change
- Google Scoring Gibberish Content to Demote Pages in Rankings?
- Google Tackles Map Spam for Businesses
- Google Turns to Deep Learning Classification to Fight Web Spam
- Google’s Paid Link Patent
- How a Search Engine May Automate Web Spam Reports and Search Feedback
- How a Search Engine May Identify Undesirable Web Pages By Analyzing Inlinks
- How Google May Identify When Sites Transform into Doorway Pages
- How Google May Respond to Fake Business Spam
- How Google Might Disassociate Webspam from Content
- How Google Might Fight Web Spam Based upon Classifications and Click Data
- How Google might fight Web Spam in Social Networks
- How Google Might Filter Out Duplicate Pages from Bounce Pad Sites
- How Google Might Use the Context of Links to Identify Link Spam
- How Search Engines May Crowd Source Web Spam Identification
- Irony, Thy Name is Microsoft
- Link Analysis, Web Spam, and the Cautious Surfer
- Microsoft Follows the Money to Find Spammers
- Microsoft on Determining Search Engine Spam From Email Spam
- Microsoft on Javascript Redirection Spam
- Page Quality and WebSpam: Using Content Analysis to Detect Spam Pages
- PageRank, Self-Serving Links, and Domain Trust
- Patent on Identifying Erroneous Business Listings in Google Maps
- Phrase Based Indexing and Spam Detection
- Spam Email Filtering Based Upon Links
- Spam Identification and Search Engine Rankings
- Technorati Patent Filing on Blog Spam
- The Google Rank-Modifying Spamming Patent
- Trust and the Internet: Web Search Spam
- Web Spam on University Sites
- Webspam Classification by Looking at Query and Page Features
- What are Reciprocal Links?
- Yahoo on Using Exceptional Changes in Snapshots of the Web to Ban, Penalize, or Flag Websites
- Yahoo Robots Combat Spam and Phishing
Search Engines and Directories
- A Peek into Google’s Desktop Search Indexing Algorithms
- Adding more factors to Microsoft’s sliders
- Ask.com Announces New Search Algorithm “Edison”
- Ask.com Patent on Reranking by User Affinity
- Ask.com Wants to Search Sites for You
- Benefits of Nested Rankings of Search Results
- Blogs as infectious diseases: how much faith do you give to search engine patents?
- Cheers for Google’s New Accessible Search
- Conceptual Highlighting in Electronic Text
- Duplicate Pages – Solving Different URLs with Similar Text (DUST)
- Feedback on Custom Search Engines
- Google Acquires Neven Vision: Adding Object and Facial Recognition Mobile Technology
- Google Ads on Handheld Devices, For Local Area Advertisements
- Google Aiming at 100 Billion Pages?
- Google Alerts Tell Google What Topics are Popular
- Google Archives to Appear Soon?
- Google as an Internet Archive?
- Google Autolink Patent
- Google Book Search Patent Application
- Google Diving into Deep Web Indexing
- Google Gadgets Patent Application: Plug-In Modules in a User Interface
- Google looks at Ranking Based upon Editorial Opinion
- Google micropayments patent application published
- Google Notebook Released
- Google Page Creator Patent Application Published
- Google Patent Search Results Added to Google Scholar
- Google Patents
- Google Patents, Updated
- Google Sourcers’ Training Video
- Google TextRank and Book Search?
- Google Toolbar History
- Google Voice Query Patent Granted
- Google’s 10 Oddest Patents
- Google’s First Bid on Nortel Patents a Transformative Moment?
- Google’s Historical Data Ranking Factors Revisited, Plus Advertising Rankings
- Google’s Listings of Internal Sitelinks for Top Search Results
- Google’s most popular and least popular top level domains
- Google’s Planet Scale Distributed Storage Patents
- Google’s Universal Search Patent Application & Assigned Patents from Infoseek
- Google, dMarc, and Targeted Radio Advertising, Part One
- Google, dMarc, and Targeted Radio Advertising, Part Two
- How Automated Evaluations Might Help Decide Upon Rankings for Search Results at Google
- How Do You Estimate the Size of A Search Engine?
- How Google Manages Large Amounts of Data?
- How Google May Rate Raters
- How Human Evaluators Might Help Decide Upon Rankings for Search Results at Google
- How to Use Topic Familiarity to Rerank Search Results
- Infrastructure and Expertrank at Ask.com
- Is Game Playing the Future Ranking System for Search Results?
- Malicious Web Sites: Identification and Filtering
- Microsoft Creating Rules for a Canonical URL
- Microsoft Explains Duplicate Content Results Filtering
- Microsoft Explores Self Organizing Maps and Search Indexes
- Microsoft Patents Dynamic Ranking Changes
- Microsoft Reranking and Information Redundancy
- Might Google Notebooks Influence Web Rankings?
- Move over PageRank: Google is Using Phrase-Based Indexing?
- New Google patent applications
- New Papers at Google Labs
- On Supplemental Index Results, Partitioned Indexing, and Extended Indexes
- Patent applications provide window into Google Book Search and Gmail
- Patent Documents Mentioning the Open Directory Project in 2006
- Patent Filings on Google Finance Provide a Glimpse at Google’s Financial News Gathering
- Problems with Portals: Yahoo on Keeping Visitors Around
- Providing Related Links to Documents
- Ranking Search Results by File Type and by Click Distance
- Ranking Search Results Using Featured Based Rankings
- Ray Kurzweil Brings Poetry to Google
- Recommended Alerts From Google
- Results Clustering Patent Application from Microsoft
- Riya Patent Applications for Visual Recognition and Search Technology
- Search Articles from E-LIS
- Search Engine Caching
- Search on the Seas: Google Water-Based Data Center Patent Granted
- Sebastien Billard’s Interview with Danica Brinton of Ask
- SEO and Compound Words, Inflections, and Alternative Spellings
- Should Search Engines Help Searchers Avoid Malicious Sites?
- Should Search Engines Refer Searchers to Other Search Engines?
- Some new Microsoft patent applications
- Stanford WebBase: Google’s Academic Cousin
- Technorati Top 100 Blogs Confusion?
- Testing Google and Yahoo Alerts
- The Google Advanced Search that Could Have Been
- The Lost Google I’m Feeling Bored Button
- The Southpark Google Organizational Information Flow Patent Application
- Trust and the Internet: Search Engine Bias
- User Popularity Data for Ranking Search Results
- Using Page Quality to Overcome Bias in Ranking Newer Sites
- Using Rare Words to Estimate Search Engine Index Sizes
- What Did Search Look Like a Decade Ago?
- What was the First Search Engine?
- Will Google Start Showing Ads and Other Content in Unused Whitespace in Your Browser Window?
- Yahoo Awarded Alerts Patent
- Yahoo Patent Application Challenges Other Search Engines
- Yahoo Sidebar Patent Applications
Search Personalization
- A Peek at Personalization at Yahoo
- A Personalized Search Using Advanced Search Operators
- An Early Personalized Recommendation System – Firefly
- Bill Gates and Company Want to Watch You Watch TV, Buy Groceries, and Use Your Credit Cards and Cell Phone (and Take Notes)
- Comparing Personalized Search Tools
- Dual Trustrank, User Profiles, and Personalized Rerankings of Search Results
- Google and Personalization in Rankings
- Google as a Recommendation System
- Google Bookmarks and Personalization
- Google News Personalization
- Google on Desktop Search and Personal Information Management
- Google on Letting Searchers Remove Documents from the Web
- Google Patent Application Clustering Users for Personalization
- Google Patent Application on How Users Can Add Pages to Search Results
- Google Patent on Desktop Search and Implicit Queries Based Upon Active Documents
- Google Personalization Methods
- Google Profile Information and Partner Content Providers: Should there be Disclosure?
- Google Toolbar 5: Sync Your Settings and Share Your Browsing History
- Google’s Personalized Ecommerce Inheritance
- Google’s Profiling Both Users and Sites?
- Google’s User Distributed Search Results in Emails, IMs, Blogger
- Google’s User Profile Personalization and Google Plus
- Google’s Web History Patent Applications
- How Google Might Personalize Search Results
- How Yahoo May Use Toolbar Data to Refine Search Results
- On Personalized PageRank and Personalized Anchor Text Scores
- Personalized Anchor Text Scores
- Personalized Search from Tracking Triplets of Users, Queries, and Pages
- Predictive Search Query Suggestions
- Preferred Country Results at Google
- Reranking Search Results Based Upon Personalization and Diversification
- Search Engines, Personalization, and Trustworthy Recommender Systems
- The Entropy of Search Logs and Personalization with Backoff
- Understanding Intentions and Microsoft Search Personalization
- What Personalization Means to Search
- Would You Give A Search Engine a 3D Model of Your Body?
- Yahoo Personalized Search Stream Queue
- Yahoo Replaces PageRank Assumptions with User Data
Search Queries
- A Look at Google Midpage Query Refinements
- A Role for Time and Query Quality in Search Results
- A Taxonomy of Rewriting Search Terms
- Apple to Take on Google in Showing Immediate Search Results?
- Ask.com Patent Application Discusses Responding to User Queries
- Ask.com Using Queries to Detect and Filter Adult Content?
- Boosting Brands, Businesses: How a Search Engine May Rewrite a Query Using Entity Detection
- Can Google Read Your Mind? Processing Predictive Queries
- Citations behind the Google Brain Word Vectors Approach
- Context Clusters in Search Query Suggestions
- Context is King: Google Parameterless Queries
- Context Sensitive Stemming for Web Search
- Could Yahoo Launch a Smarter Instant Search?
- Crawling Pages to Address Needy Queries and Search Impact
- Does Alexa Use Search Results to Identify Related Pages?
- Does Bing Time Shift Search Results?
- Evolving Google Search Algorithms
- Expanding Google Suggest in Legal Dispute
- Fuzzy Pinyins – Correcting Chinese Characters in Search Queries
- Google Alerts for New Results from Old Searches
- Google and Misspelled Queries
- Google Enriched Results Patent
- Google Near Realtime Queries Patent
- Google on Generating Statistics from Search Engine Query Logs (Google Trends and More)
- Google OneBox and Measuring User Behavior
- Google Patent Granted on Semantic Units (Meaningful Compounds)
- Google predictive queries
- Google Query Revision Strategies
- Google Search Synonyms Are Found in Queries
- Google to Expand Language Search and Shrink Our World?
- Google’s Query Rank, and Query Revisions on Search Result Pages
- Head URLs and Tail URLs and Bing’s Supplemental Index?
- How a Search Engine May Expand Search Queries Based upon Popularity Measured by User Behavior
- How a Search Engine Might Determine Search Engine Relevance from Related Queries
- How a Search Engine Might Rerank Search Results Based upon Time-Based Data in Query Logs
- How a Search Engine Might Use a Searcher’s Knowledge, Interests, and Education to Rerank and Validate Search Results
- How Google May Rank Some Results based on Categorical Quality
- How Google May Reform Queries Based on Query Session Co-Occurrence
- How Google May Substitute Query Terms with Co-Occurrence
- How Google May Transform Queries into Trigger Queries
- How Google Might Identify Topics With Inadequate Search Content
- How Google Might Make Better Synonym Substitutions Using Knowledge Base Categories
- How Previous Searchers’ Queries Could Be Used to Re-Rank Your Search Results
- How Query Suggestions May be Identified by Google
- How Search Engines May Decide Upon and Optimize Query Suggestions
- How Search Engines May Substitute Search Terms for Yours
- How Tasks and Gender May Influence How People Google
- How Using Query Categories Can Help Searchers, Writers, and Search Engines
- Long Tail Studies by Web Search Researchers
- Looking at Final Landing Pages for Suggestions for Query Revisions
- Making Sense of Search Queries by Using Context
- Microsoft on Navigational Search Queries and Best Match
- Microsoft Search on the Seasonality of Keywords
- Microsoft Study Takes Navigational Sitelinks a Step Further
- Microsoft Tracking Search and Browsing Behavior to Find Authoritative Pages
- Microsoft’s UserRank – Query Independent Ranking Based Upon User Logs
- Mining Search Queries for Information
- Mining User Queries to Extract Information From Web Pages
- More Ways Search Engine Synonyms Might be Used to Rewrite Queries
- Most Common Words in Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask, with Google Caffeine
- Multi-Stage Query Processing at Google
- New Google Ranking Patents
- Not Brands but Entities: The Influence of Named Entities on Google and Yahoo Search Results
- Predictive Queries versus Unique Searches
- Quality Scores for Queries: Structured Data, Synthetic Queries and Augmentation Queries
- Query Suggestion Strategies that Search Engines May Use
- Redefining Navigational Queries to Find Perfect Sites
- Related Queries Might Influence Customized Google Search Results
- Relationships between Search Entities
- Reranking Search Results Based Upon Concepts in Users’ Queries
- Research on Travel Related Search Queries
- Search Engine APIs vs Search Engine Results
- Search Engine Queries May be Used to Identify Entity Attributes
- Search Engines and Expansion of Acronyms
- Search Engines Learn From Search Query Sequences
- Search Engines Learning from Advanced Searchers?
- Search Query Traffic from Bots and from Humans
- Search Trails: Destinations, Interactive Hubs, and Way Stations
- Searcher Intent from Analysis of Search Engine Query Logs
- Searching with Pronouns: What are they? Coreferences in Followup Queries
- Semantic Query Information at Google
- Semantic Relations from Query Logs
- Should a Search Engine Sell Business Intelligence Gathered from Searchers’ Queries?
- Study on the Structure of Search Queries
- Studying the User Behavior of Non-Human Web Searchers
- The Google Hummingbird Update and the Likely Patent Behind Hummingbird
- The Noise Becomes the Signal – Voice Queries and Accent Scores
- The Wisdom of Search Crowds: Google Research on Datamining Queries
- User Intent and Characteristics of Search Queries
- Using Anchor Text to Find Documents in Other Languages
- Using Search Query Disambiguation with Entity Tags to Understand Intent
- Using Search Results People Click Upon to Understand Events Tied to Queries
- What Do You Do With a Database of AOL User Queries?
- Will Google Add Categories to Search Results, and Let You Edit Them?
- Yahoo on Testing Relevance and Variety in Search Results
- Yahoo Query Revisions Based upon Anchor Text Pointing to Search Results
- Yahoo to Use Query Histories to Improve Search Results?
- Yahoo’s Predictive Queries, Invisible Tabs, and Temporal and Monetization Bias Experiments
Social Media and Social Search
- A Google Like Button: Adsense for Social Network Sharers?
- A Hint of What Google’s Social Network Might Look Like?
- Agent Rank as an Identity Service or Digital Signature
- Apple Files Patent on Buddy Finder App for Location Based Social Networking
- Are You Experienced? Google Patents Social Experience Cards
- Are You Trusted by Google?
- Before They Were Social
- Bing’s Search Plus Your World?
- Brands Entities at Google; Crowdsourcing their Identity in a Social Network
- Can Author Rank or Other Social Network Rankings Get You Crawled First?
- ChaCha Search – Is People Powered Search Better?
- Community Tagging and Ranking Landmark Images
- Does Linden Research Patent Point to the Future of Second Life?
- Early Google Circles and the Google Social Site You Might Not Know About
- Facebook Patent Application Describes Receiving Data from Logged-Out Users to Target Ads
- Facebook Patent Filings (Updated)
- Facebook Places vs. Yahoo’s Who, What, When, Where (W4) Communications Network Patent?
- Facebook Timeline and Patent Application
- Facebook’s Real Time Social Network Search Patent
- Flickr Interestingness Rankings Patents Released
- Google As a Social Search Engine: Aardvark Answers & Circle Posts in Google Search Results?
- Google Base Patent Applications: Searching, Labeling, and Ranking User Generated Data
- Google Introduces a Social Suggestions Patent
- Google Patent for Pseudonyms in Social Networks
- Google Patent Granted on Fresh Related Search Suggestions
- Google Patents Voice Posting to Social Networks
- Google Plus as Tomorrow’s Social Ebay?
- Google Plus Roots are Showing in Grouptivity Patent Filings
- Google Social Media Influencer Scores
- Google to Broker Know-How with Virtual Money and Anonymous Users?
- Google to Crowdsource Recommendations?
- Google’s Agent Rank / Author Rank Patent Filing
- Google’s Asymmetric Social Network and Plus Authoring Patent
- Google’s Explores a User Activity Media Feed
- Google’s Query-Based Circles Patent
- Google’s Social Search Patent Application
- Google+’s Edgerank; Content is shared based on Social Interactions
- Green Communities and Social Networks
- Has Google Decided you Create Authoritative Content for a Query?
- Hints of How Google May Rank Social Networks?
- How Buddies and People Who Know are Selected for Bing Social Searches
- How Google may Rank Users in Streams
- How Google May Use Google+ to Improve Reviews of Goods and Services
- How Google Might Offer Face Search by Using Pictures from Social Networks
- How Google Might Rank User Generated Web Content in Google + and Other Social Networks
- Is a Google Timeline in our Future?
- Is An Improved Version of Agent Rank Returning to Google?
- Microsoft on Blog Rolls and Ranking Blog Content
- Microsoft Weighs in on Ranking Authors in Social Networks
- Move over Google Author Rank, Make way for Google Authoritative Rank
- MyBlogLog Interview
- On Google Plumbing References from Social Networking Sites Such as Orkut to Rank Articles
- OpenSocial and the Google Patent Filings
- Organizing social tags into hierarchies
- Papers for Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization
- Papers from the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- PostRank and the Importance of Social Engagement Data to SEO
- Queryless Recommendations at Google, Stumbleupon, and eBay
- Social Circles, Content Sharing, and Social Visibility Pending Patents for Google Plus
- Social Trustrank and User Annotations as Anchor Text
- Studying the Wikipedia Over Time
- Twitter Differences in Different Countries
- What Ranking Signal is Better, HTTPS or FOAF markup, when Searcher and Searched Author are Connected?
- What Technorati and the Associated Press Joining Forces Means to Bloggers
- What’s Your Google Viral Score?
- Who are You Going to Trust Today: Microsoft’s Reputation Mashup
- Will Google +1 Web Page Buttons also be Share Buttons?
- Will Google Make Browsing A Web Page a Social Activity Too?
- Will Google Pursue Chillaxn’s Social Application Patent?
- Yahoo on Visualizing Community Use of Social Media Sites
- Yahoo Patents in Facebook Patent Infringement Case
- Yahoo patents Related Nodes in a Social Nework
- Yahoo Tag Suggestions Use Goodness to Combat Tag Spam
- Yahoo’s Social Search Answer to Google’s Aardvark?
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