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A chronological index of the preserved SEO by the Sea posts.
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2022
- Identifying Subjective Attributes Of Entities
- Generating Query Answers
- Generic Content Ratings Based on Location
- Google Universal Search 2200 In a Digital Assistant
- Humans Enrolling With Automated Assistants
- Resuming A Dialog Session Following A Human to Computer Dialog
- Extremely Large Datasets And Machine Learning
- Question-Answering In Dialog Systems
- Travel Related Photographs For a Travel Search Engine
- Improving Linking Confidence
- A Guide to More Credible Websites
- Answering Queries With A Knowledge Graph
- Completing Human to Computer Dialogs with Automated Assistants
- A User Programmable Automated Assistant from Google
- Unsolicited Content in Human to Computer Dialog
- Human to Computer Dialog at Google
2021
- An Image Content Analysis And A Geo-Semantic Index For Recommendations
- Search Engineers Home Pages and Research Profile Pages
- What are LSI Keywords and What I Use Instead of Them?
- How Google May Create Augmented Content
- Tracking Trending Information on the Web
- On-Device Machine Learning and Prediction
- Rewritten Queries and User-Specific Knowledge Graphs
- Semantic Relevance of Keywords
- Locally Prominent Semantic Features
- Term Frequency and Inverse Document Frequency at Google
- Google's Inverted Index of the Web
- BERT Question-Answering at Google
- Natural Language Query Responses
- Extracting Entities with Automated Data Wrappers
- Question Answering Using Text Spans With Word Vectors
- How is a Knowledge Panel for an Entity Triggered?
2020
- Opinion News Found By Machine Learning at Google
- Adjusting Featured Snippet Answers by Context
- Bursty Fresh and Local Featured Snippet Answers at Google
- Featured Snippet Answer Scores Ranking Signals
- Where will we go with Personalized Knowledge Graphs?
- Entity Seeking Queries and Semantic Dependency Trees
- How Google Might Rank Image Search Results
- A Well-Formed Query Helps Search Engines Learn User Intent in Queries
- Job Search Engine Using Occupation Vectors
- Search Suggestions from Previously Submitted Searcher Queries
- PageRank 2020
- Image Queries Disambiguated at Google
- Google Product Search and Learning about New Product Lines
- Google Podcasts App and Making Podcasts Easier to Find
- How Google May Annotate Images to Improve Search Results
- Quote Searching Updated at Google to Focus on Videos
- Google Top Stories Are Chosen By Importance Scores
2019
- Top 10 Search Engine Patents to Know About from 2019
- User-Specific Knowledge Graphs to Support Queries and Predictions
- Evolution of Google's News Ranking Algorithm
- How Google Enforces Category Diversity for Some Local Search Results
- Augmented Search Queries Using Knowledge Graph Information
- Google Knowledge Graph Reconciliation
- How would Google Answer Vague Questions in Queries?
- How Google May Handle Question Answering when Facts are Missing
- Location Extensions Augmented Advertisements
- How Google May Rank Some Results based on Categorical Quality
- Image Classification and Landmarks at Google
- Context Clusters in Search Query Suggestions
- Universal Search Updated at Google
2018
- How the Google Knowledge Graph Updates Itself by Answering Questions
- How Google Identifies Primary Versions of Duplicate Content
- Quality Scores for Queries: Structured Data, Synthetic Queries and Augmentation Queries
- Learning to Rank
- Five Years of Google Ranking Signals
- Google Patent on Structured Data Focuses upon JSON-LD
- Structured Data, Schema, and Scattered Databases such as the World Wide Web
- Google to Offer Combined Content (Paid and Organic) Search Results
- PageRank Update
- Search Engine Queries May be Used to Identify Entity Attributes
- Google Related Questions now use a Question Graph
- Google's Mobile Location History
- Does Google Use Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)?
- Google Targeted Advertising, Part 1
2017
- Google May Diminish Reviews of Places You Stop Visiting
- Semantic Keywords Research and Topic Models
- Topical Search Results at Google?
- Using Ngram Phrase Models to Generate Site Quality Scores
- Google's Project Jacquard: Textile-Based Device Controls
- Citations behind the Google Brain Word Vectors Approach
- Personalized Search Results at Google
- Learning Through SEO Forums
- Google Extracts Facts from the Web to Provide Fact Answers
- Learning Through SEO Books
- Learning SEO, Summer 2017
- Authoritative Search Results in Google Searches?
- Google Event Finder
- Google Social Media Influencer Scores
- How Google May Rank Websites Based Upon Their Databases Answering Queries
- Google Related Questions or 'People Also Ask' Patent
- Ranking Local Businesses Based Upon Quality Measures including Travel Time
- Google May Check to See if People Go to Geographic Locations Google May Recommend
- Google Introduces a Social Suggestions Patent
- Advice Given to an Aspiring 14 Year-Old Entrepreneur Wanting to Learn SEO
- Google Search Query Refinements Patent Updated
- Google and Spoken Queries: Understanding Stressed Pronouns
2016
- Popular Times for Businesses Learned by Looking at Location History
- 2016 Important Google Patents for SEO
- A New Search Results Evaluation Model from Google
- Google Acquires Eye Tracking Startup Eyefluence and its Technology
- Answering Featured Snippets Timely, Using Sentence Compression on News
- Ranking Events in Google Search Results
- Google News Recommendations and the Google Knowledge Base
- GS1 Web Vocabulary Schema Workshops in California
- Entities in the Google Knowledge Graph Search API for Google
- Knowledge Panels in Site Audits
- Learning SEO by Looking at Anomalies
- Google Patents Context Vectors to Improve Search
- Are You Using Google's New Automated Assistant?
- Apple Augmented Reality Improved with Acquisition of Project Tango Collaborator Flyby Media
- Google Granted Design Patent on Camera Bracelet
- Apple AMP Pages are Mobile-Friendly
- Twitter Poll - How Does Google Index Content on the Web?
- How Google May Respond to Fake Business Spam
- The US is Asking for Help Understanding the Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
- Google Machine Learning
- How Google May Map a Query to Entity Search Suggestions (Updated)
- Yahoo Assigns 2648 Patents to Mystery Excalibur IP, LLC Group
- Google's Reasonable Surfer Model Updated
- Biometric Parameters as a Ranking Signal in Google Search Results?
- Performing Entity Actions on Sites
- New Visual Search Photo Features from Google
- How Self-Driving Cars Might Handle Tailgaters
- Google Assigns 148 Medical Patents to Verily Life Sciences
- Image Search and Trends in Google Search Using FreeBase Entity Numbers
- Google Cross-Device Tracking and Audio Watermarking
2015
- How Google Might Make Better Synonym Substitutions Using Knowledge Base Categories
- Do Search Click-Throughs Help Determine Where a Page Ranks?
- Will Google Start Reading Text in Images on the Web Soon?
- Recalculating PageRank
- Google Files Patent for Drone Delivery Platform
- Move over Google Author Rank, Make way for Google Authoritative Rank
- How Google May Use Schema Vocabulary to Reduce Duplicate Content in Search Results
- The Evolution of Search
- Answer Boxes, Trigger Terms and Enriched Search Results
- Google Fights Keyword Stuffed Business Names with Surprisingness
- How Google might Disambiguate Different Entities with the Same Names in Queries and Pages
- When Google Started Showing Featured Snippets
- Cancelled Invasive Google Here Program Patent Application
- How Google may Identify How Related Different Entities Are
- Google+'s Edgerank; Content is shared based on Social Interactions
- Uber Assigns Nine Mapping Patents to Microsoft
- How Google Decides Which Knowledge Graph Images to Show
- How Google May Use Google+ to Improve Reviews of Goods and Services
- Google Watch Times Algorithm For Rankings?
- Google Patents Click-Through User Feedback on Search Results to Improve Rankings
- How You May Help Google Mapping Indoor Spaces
- Is An Improved Version of Author Rank Returning to Google?
- How Google May Answer Questions in Queries with Rich Content Results
- Google to Map Road Quality?
- How Google May Trigger Answer Box Results for Queries
- Ranking in Google Since The Advent of The Knowledge Graph
- How Google May Classify Sites as Low Quality Sites
- How Google May Show Sitelinks Based on Visual or Functional Significance (Updated)
- Google Maps Using Photos to Identify Business Listing Spam?
- Brands Entities at Google; Crowdsourcing their Identity in a Social Network
- How Google might fight Web Spam in Social Networks
- Lycos to sell off patents
- Google Patents Photo Location Recommendations
- Early Panda and Concept Templates
- How Google May Calculate a Site Quality Score (from Navneet Panda)
- How Google is focusing upon Building and Promoting Entity Collections
- Open Data Commons Opportunities
- How Google May Identify Main Entities
- Using Photos & Data Under a Creative Commons License
- Licensing Requirement Information found in Linked Open Data
- How Google May Index Deep Web Entities
- How Bing May Expand Queries Based upon Finding Entities Within them
- How Named Entities Connected to Trending Topics can be used to Address Real Time Search Results
- SEO from Google's Direct Answers
- Google Knowledge Cards Improve Search Engine Experiences
- Semantic SEO in San Diego (Presentations are available)
- How Google may Rank Users in Streams
- Google Files Patent for Wearable Nanotechnology Anti-Cancer Technology
- Google on Crawling the Web of Data
- Google Media Consumption History Patent Filed
- How Google is Corroborating Facts for Direct Answers
- Some Patents Behind Microsoft's Personal Assistant Cortana
- All Hands on the Microsoft Holodeck: A Look at Some of the Hololens Patents
- Magic Leap and Their Augmented Reality Semantic Robots
- Featured Snippets: Extracting Text from Pages Citations
- Featured Snippets: Extracting Answers from Web Pages
- Lighting a Sign In Carlsbad
2014
- Featured Snippets - Using Query Intent Templates to Identify Answers
- Featured Snippets - Taken from Authority Websites
- Featured Snippets - Natural Language Search Results for Intent Queries
- Have a Magical Christmas, and a Happy New Year
- A Replacement for PageRank?
- Which Sea For SEO by the Sea?
- Entity References as Compositional Queries
- Entity Connections on Google's Knowledge Graph
- Google's Query Language
- Knowledge Panel Ads at Google
- When Optimizing for SEO and the Semantic Web, Don't Forget Your Audience
- The Early Days of the Semantic Web
- Google Queries for Entity Instances Help Reveal the Classes Where They Belong
- How Google May Select Data Repository Sources Based Upon Keywords
- How Google May Transform Queries into Trigger Queries
- Google on Creating a Relevant Second Screen for TV
- How I Came to Love Entities and Start Doing Entity Optimization
- Searching with Pronouns: What are they? Coreferences in Followup Queries
- Google Glass Augmented Reality and Magic Leap Virtual Reality Team Up?
- Google Enriched Results Patent
- Google's Telepresence Patent
- Patterns Among Templates Lead to Clues About Entities
- Google HowTo Snippets and Cooking with Semantics
- Rich Snippets and Patterned Queries
- How Google May Use Entity References to Answer Questions
- Patent Free Fridays
- At Pubcon, Presenting on a Semantic Timeline at Google
- Google Acquires 55 Yahoo! Patent Filings
- At SMX East; Presenting on Google and the Semantic Web
- New Panda Update; New Panda Patent
- Query Classification from User Data
- Google Turns to Deep Learning Classification to Fight Web Spam
- Extracting Semantic Classes from Web Pages and Query Logs
- Google Adds Entity Attributes to its Knowledge Base from Queries
- Question Answering to Populate the Knowledge Graph
- Where Rich Content Images Come From
- Google's First Semantic Search Invention was Patented in 1999
- Google Granted Patent on Using What You Watch on TV as a Ranking Signal
- Lessons Learned from Using Google's Tagging and Extraction Data Highlighter Tool
- Is Google Going to Marry their Knowledge Base with their Search Engine?
- What Ranking Signal is Better, HTTPS or FOAF markup, when Searcher and Searched Author are Connected?
- Has Google Decided you Create Authoritative Content for a Query?
- Google's Browseable Fact Repository - an Early Knowledge Graph
- Was Google Maps a Proof of Concept for Google's Knowledge Base Efforts?
- Looking at Related Documents Titles and Anchor Text when Collecting Facts about an Entity
- Extracting Knowledge Base Facts for Entities from Sources such as Wikipedia Titles and Infoboxes
- Did Google acquire Game Maker and Distributor CiiNow?
- Google Patent Attacks Reverse Engineering of Local Search Listings
- Identifying Entity Types and the Transfiguration of Search @Google
- Semantic SEO or Semantic Search?
- Google Acquires Patent on Speeding up SSL on Networks
- Google on Finding Entities: A Tale of Two Michael Jacksons
- Entity Mentions are Good: Brand Mentions are not the New Link Building
- How Knowledge Base Entities May be Used in Searches
- Move Over TrustRank, Make Room for Trust Buttons
- Google's Skybox Eye-in-the-Sky Acquisition
- Finding Entity Names in Google's Knowledge Graph
- How Google Might Identify Entity Synonyms Using Anchor Text
- Google's Paid Link Patent
- Is Ranking Search Results the Panda Patent?
- Google's Panda Granted a Patent on Ranking Search Results
- Has Advertising Information Been Used by Google in Ranking Pages in Search Results?
- The Incomplete Google Ranking Signals, Part 1
- Google's Mobile Ordering Ahead Patent
- Evolving Google Search Algorithms
- Google's Patent on Site Speed as a Ranking Signal
- Taxonomic Classifications to Better Understand the Meanings of Words on Pages
- Twitter's New Patent Trove (943 Patents) from IBM
- Will Keywords be Replaced by Topics for Some Searches?
- Nest Not Google's First Big Home Automation Purchase
- Entity Associations with Websites and Related Entities
2013
- Do You Have a Named Entity Strategy for Marketing Your Web Site?
- How Google May Rewrite Queries
- How Google Finds 'Known For' Terms for Entities
- How Google Might Use the Context of Links to Identify Link Spam
- Hummingbird and Author Rank Authority
- Concept-Based Web Search
- Semantic Query Information at Google
- Google Scoring Gibberish Content to Demote Pages in Rankings?
- The Google Hummingbird Patent? | SEO by the sea
- Driving Directions vs. Reviews as Ranking Signals for Google Maps
- How Google May Reform Queries Based on Query Session Co-Occurrence
- Joining Go Fish Digital
- Relationships between Search Entities
- How Google May Substitute Query Terms with Co-Occurrence
- Are You Experienced? Google Patents Social Experience Cards
- How Google May Create Diverse Search Results by Merging Local and Web Search Results
- Google Patents Anchor Text Snippets
- Is the Future of Mapping Social?
- How Google May Classify Pages Using Hierarchical Categories in URLs
- Context is King: Google Parameterless Queries
- Google Plus as Tomorrow's Social Ebay?
- Google Patents on Author Signature Values and Topic Authority Scores
- George Bush is a Miserable Failure Again, in Google's Knowledge Base
- Google Files Patent for Understanding Multiple URLs for the Same Page
- How Google May Rank Web Sites Based on Quality Ratings
- Avoiding Misinformation While Learning from Search Related Patents
- How Google Decides What to Know in Knowledge Panel Results
- With Wavii, Did Google Acquire the Future of Web Search?
- Google Acquires More Wearable Computing Glasses Patents
- Bill's Most Excellent Top 10 SEO Rules
- Google Granted Patent on Mobile Machine Learning
- Ray Kurzweil Brings Poetry to Google
- The Noise Becomes the Signal - Voice Queries and Accent Scores
- Category Relevant Search Results, Query Suggestions, and Advertisements Based on Location?
- Google Patent Granted on Fresh Related Search Suggestions
- Improving Processes
- Google's Agent Rank / Author Rank Patent Filing
- Google's Query-Based Circles Patent
- Google's Explores a User Activity Media Feed
- Google Authorship Markup Patent Applications Published
- These Are Not The Droids Google is Looking For?
- How Google is Refining Search Queries the Orion Way
- Google Patent on Hidden Text and Links
- Why Google Shows Dynamic Search Snippets
- How Google Might Generate Search Results Snippets
- Google News Algorithm Updated
- Inside the Google House of Ideas: 2 Lens Glass, Google Robots, and Smartwatches
- Google Lifestreaming?
- Google Patents Identifying User Location Spam
- Google Patent Granted on Mobile Location Detection
- Google Patent for Touch Screen Keyboard
- More Project Glass Patents, Part 2
- Google Glass Hardware Patents, Part 1
- Kodak Not Enough: Google Acquires Printer and Camera Patents from Silverbrook
- Google Granted Patent on Google Maps in Web Search Results
- What's Your Google Viral Score?
- Google Acquires Patent for Eye Scan Security and Augmented Imagery
- Building Google's Knowledge Base and Identifying Locations in Web Pages
- How Google May Create and Use Synthetic Queries
- How Google Might Ignore Insignificant Terms in Queries
2012
- Patent on Identifying erroneous business listings in Google Maps?
- Google Tackles Geographic (Map) Spam for Businesses
- How Google May Identify Navigational Queries and Resources
- Ranking Webpages Based on Word Relationships (Co-Occurrence)
- Not All Anchor Text is Equal and other Co-Citation Observations
- How Search Engines Might Use Knowledge Base Information for Underserved Queries
- Can Author Rank or Other Social Network Rankings Get You Crawled First?
- Does Google Use Reachability Scores in Ranking Resources?
- Electronic Payment Wallet Patents Acquired by Google
- Is Google Measuring Our Reading Speed of Web Documents?
- Robots Search Google Goggles to Pick New Things Up
- Google's Streetviews Cars Learn to Read?
- Voice Queries and Visual Queries The Future of Search?
- Google Patent for Pseudonyms in Social Networks
- Google's User Profile Personalization and Google Plus
- Google, Electronic Textbooks, and Collaborative Schooling?
- Google Scores 7 Mobile Location-Based Services Patents from deCarta
- GMail Rank and the Importance of Good Subject Lines
- The Google Rank-Modifying Spamming Patent
- Indexing Recent Content in Search Engines
- Google Beefs Up Patent Portfolio with Wireless Patents from Proxim
- Google Patents Voice Posting to Social Networks
- Google to Crowdsource Recommendations?
- Google Acquires Mangosoft's Distributed Directory Service Patents for $3.2 Million
- On Materiality and Search Engines
- On Search Engine Relevance
- How Google Might Determine Categories for Web Pages
- Will Google Add Categories to Search Results, and Let You Edit Them?
- Can You Automate and Patent SEO?
- How Buddies and People Who Know are Selected for Bing Social Searches
- 100 Best SEO Documents of All Time, part 4
- How Google Might Use Query Logs to Find Entity Locations
- How Google May Identify Implicitly Local Queries
- Search Engines and Entities
- Google's Human Evaluators, Local Search, and Web Search Algorithm Testing
- Google Acquires Meebo and Meebo Patent Filings
- Is a Google Timeline in our Future?
- Future SEO and Paid Ads with Google Glasses?
- The Google Panda Patent?
- Should You be Doing Concept Research Instead of Keyword Research?
- More Google Glasses Patents: Beyond the Design
- All Your Knowledge Bases Belong to Google
- Google Glasses Design Patents and Other Wearables
- Microsoft Weighs in on Ranking Authors in Social Networks
- How Google Might Disassociate Webspam from Content
- Social Circles, Content Sharing, and Social Visibility Pending Patents for Google Plus
- SEO Implications of New Matching Approach for Google Ads?
- PostRank and the Importance of Social Engagement Data to SEO
- Panda and Penguin go sledding
- Google Acquires Indoor/Outdoor Wireless Location Patents
- Google Praises SEO, Condemns Webspam, and Rolls Out an Algorithm Change
- Google Acquires Circuit City Home Video Rental Patents
- Bing's Search Plus Your World?
- Google Acquires Unisys Patents, Including a Java API Patent
- Google Acquires Glasses Patents
- How Google Might Index Link Behavior Information
- Google's Comment Patents and How Pages' Web Rankings Might Be Influenced by Commentors' Reputations
- Google's Social Search Patent Application
- Most Important SEO Patents Part 10: Just the Beginning
- Google Near Realtime Queries Patent
- Predicting SEO Changes in Rankings, Algorithms, and Penalties
- Yahoo Patents in Facebook Patent Infringement Case
- How Google Data Centers may be Split between Regional and Global Data
- Nuance Search-Related Patent Applications Published
- The New PageRank, Same as the Old PageRank?
- 12 Google Link Analysis Methods That Might Have Changed
- How Business Names Might be Used by Google in Local Search
- Xerox Helps Google Fill in Some Search Gaps: From Pre-Web to Post Panda
- Google Plus Roots are Showing in Grouptivity Patent Filings
- Google Acquires Cuil Patent Applications
- 97 Hewlett-Packard Patents Assigned to Google
- Big Data at Google
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 9 - From Ten Blue Links to Blended and Universal Search
- Google Acquires Fiber Optic Networking Patents (Kansas City and then the World?)
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 8 - Assigning Geographic Relevance to Web Pages
- Is Google Aiming at Building Faster Networks and Data Transmissions?
- How Classification of Page Elements and Search Results May Influence Alternative Titles and Snippets Displayed in Google
- Google's Query Analysis and Reranking of Search Results
- Apple's Siri Patent Application
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 7 - Sets, Semantic Closeness, Segmentation, and Webtables
- Heading Elements and the Folly of SEO Expert Ranking Lists
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 6 - Named Entity Detection
- IBM Assigns 217 More Patent Filings to Google including Wireless Phones and Javascript Widgets
2011
- How Google Might Identify Transient Content on Webpages
- Forget Siri: Google Voice Phone Searches May Display Results on TV
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents, Part 5 - Phrase Based Indexing -
- Google Acquires Significant 3G Patents
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 4 - PageRank Meets the Reasonable Surfer
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 3 - Classifying Web Blocks with Linguistic Features
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 2 - The Original Historical Data Patent Filing and its Children
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 1 - The Original PageRank Patent Application
- Expanded Snippets Patent, Google's Instant Previews, and the Costs and Benefits of Making Changes
- Twitter Differences in Different Countries
- Are You Trusted by Google?
- How Automated Evaluations Might Help Decide Upon Rankings for Search Results at Google
- Human Evaluators Might Help Decide on Rankings for Search Results
- The Integration of Social Media into Search Results and Rankings: Internet Summit 2011
- Patent Filings from Google's Acquisition of Apture and Katango: Highlighted Search, YouTube Sliders, and Intelligent Social Media Agents?
- Google Patent on Displaying Breadcrumb Links in Search Results
- Google Granted Patent on Hostname Mirrors
- Agent Rank, or Google Plus as an Identity Service or Digital Signature
- Google's New Freshness Update: Social Media Has Changed the Expectations of Searchers
- How Google May Demote Some Search Results for Subsequent Related Searches
- How Google May Identify When Sites Transform into Doorway Pages
- Google's Exact Match Domains Patent (Detecting Commercial Queries)
- Authority Ranking vs. Popularity Ranking in Search Results
- Revisiting Google's Information Retrieval Based Upon Historical Data
- How a Search Engine May Automate Web Spam Reports and Search Feedback
- How Google Might Filter Out Duplicate Pages from Bounce Pad Sites
- Wow! Google Acquires Wowd Search Patents
- Do Search Engines Use Social Media to Discover New Topics?
- Driving Directions a Local Search Ranking Factor?
- Google Acquires iLOR Patent Used to Sue Google
- Google Acquires More IBM Patents In September
- How a Search Engine might Weigh Anchor Text Relevance Differently
- How Google Might Enable You to Translate Your Webpages Through a Proxy Server
- Google Acquires Non-Strategic Mosaid Technologies Patents
- Facebook Patent Application Describes Receiving Data from Logged-Out Users to Target Ads
- Search Engine Archeology
- How a Search Engine May Measure Search Results Quality
- Google and IBM do it again: Google Acquires over 1,000 Patents from IBM in August
- How a Search Engine Might Use Statistics to Identify New Ranking Features
- What problems does your Website solve?
- Crowdsourcing Behind New Apple Local Search Patent
- How Google Might Introduce Job, Recipe, and Other Search Modes into Web Search Results
- Google Picks Up Hardware and Media Patents from Outland Research
- Google's New Sentiment Phrase Snippets for Google Places
- Google Patents Seeing with your Hand
- Google Search Result Annotations
- Low Quality Content Patents at Google
- How Google Might Track Webpage Changes
- Did Google Acquire the Tech (or Patents) for Google Related from Northbrook Digital LLC?
- Google's Asymmetric Social Network and Plus Authoring Patent
- Google's Planet Scale Distributed Storage Patents
- How Google May Boost Search Rankings for Document Category Keywords
- Google Acquires Facet Technology Mapping and Street Level Object Recognition Patents
- Facebook's Real Time Social Network Search Patent
- How Google May Transform Your Search into Multiple Related Searches (Without Your Knowledge)
- After Authorship Markup, Will Google Give Us Author Badges Too?
- Google Malware Detection Using Document Classification
- Google Acquires Case Study Patents from International Tech Broadcaster
- Google's New Patents from IBM
- Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents in July
- Google and Large Scale Data Models Like Panda
- How Google Might Rank Pages Based upon User Behavior Information
- Early Google Circles and the Google Social Site You Might Not Know About
- Google Patent Granted on PageRank Sculpting and Opinion Passing Links
- How Google Might Rank User Generated Web Content in Google + and Other Social Networks
- Google's Second Most Important Algorithm? Before Google's Panda, there was Phil
- How A Search Engine Might Classify Sensitive Web Pages
- Google As a Social Search Engine: Aardvark Answers & Circle Posts in Google Search Results?
- Will Google Make Browsing A Web Page a Social Activity Too?
- Google to Broker Know-How with Virtual Money and Anonymous Users?
- Google Acquires Girafa.com's Image Preview Patents
- How Google Might Classify Queries Differently at Different Data Centers
- Will Google Start Showing Ads and Other Content in Unused Whitespace in Your Browser Window?
- Apple Files Patent on Buddy Finder App for Location Based Social Networking
- Google's Quality Score Patent: The Birth of Panda?
- Better Blogging Lessons from Dead Tree Authors and Cereal Boxes
- Author Markup, Schema.org and Patents, Oh My!
- Searching in Google's Book Search (The SEO of Books?)
- Looking Back after 6 Years and 1,000 Posts
- How Google Might Choose the Most Relevant Reviews to Display
- Google Research Paper on Online Reviews for Merchants and Products
- Google Quality Scores for Publishers: The Carrot and the Stick?
- Will Google Pursue Chillaxn's Social Application Patent?
- Google's Paraphrase-Based Indexing, Part 2
- Google's Paraphrase-Based Indexing, Part 1
- Microsoft's Approach to Identifying Quality Search Results Based on User Feedback?
- The Google Video Patent
- A Hint of What Google's Social Network Might Look Like?
- Just What is Web Site Quality?
- Google Self Driving Cars Get Jumpstart from IBM Patents
- User Behavior Data Google May Use to Influence Search Rankings
- Time to Add Query Breadth to Your SEO Glossary?
- Google Acquires Swimming Goggle Patent
- Google's First Bid on Nortel Patents a Transformative Moment?
- Will Google +1 Web Page Buttons also be Share Buttons?
- Google Acquires Virtual Post-it Notes Patents
- Googles Page Segmentation Patent Granted
- How a Search Engine May Rerank a Page Based on Web Page Credibility
- The First PageRank Patent and the Newest
- How a Search Engine May be able to Tell if an Image is an Advertisement Image
- Text is Your URL: Google Acquires/Licenses Exbiblio, B.V. Technology
- Searching Google for Big Panda and Finding Decision Trees
- How a Search Engine Might Rank Videos Based Upon Video Content
- How a Search Engine Might Use Linguistic Features of Web Page Blocks to Improve Search Results
- How Google Might Offer Face Search by Using Pictures from Social Networks
- More Ways Search Engine Synonyms Might be Used to Rewrite Queries
- The Future of Google's Visual Phone Search?
- Using Blog Images in Blog Posts
- Google Patents, Updated
- A Document Level Classifier and Google Spam Identification
- Hints of How Google May Rank Social Networks?
- Why a Search Engine Might Cluster Concepts to Improve Search Results
- Small Business Blogging Content Strategies
- Google's Show More Results (Plusbox) Patent
- Irony, Thy Name is Microsoft
- The Real Problem with Borders Books is Search
- How a Search Engine Might Fight Googlebombing
- Favorite SEO by the Sea Posts from 2010
- Who are You Going to Trust Today: Microsoft's Reputation Mashup
- Twitter Acquisitions
- A Google Like Button: Adsense for Social Network Sharers?
2010
- The Impact of Content Change on Search Engine Rankings
- The Importance of Navigation
- Is Google Now a Phone Company?
- Google's Acquisition of Myriad Group Phone Patents
- Google's Acquisition of Zetawire brings Electronic Wallets Nearer
- How a Search Engine Might Search Nicknames and Given Names
- Implications of Google's Acquisition of WideVine
- The Evolution of Google Ratings (Experts Delegating Authority)?
- Google to Provide Better Accuracy in Location-Based Services?
- SEO is Undead Again (Profiles, Phrases, Entities, and Language Models)
- Google on Duplicate Content Filtering and News Attribution Metatags
- Son of SEO is Undead (Google Caffeine and New Product Refinements)
- SEO is Undead 1 (Links and Keyword Proximity)
- Should You Rely upon Search Spiders to Rewrite Your Web Addresses?
- How Reputation Management May Work at Google
- Google Gesture Search for Android on Google Maps?
- The Expertise of Google Custom Search Engines vs. the Wisdom of Crowds
- Google Quick Scroll - Good or Evil?
- Are Google Custom Search Engines Influencing Google Web Search?
- Assumptions behind Web Searches
- Improved Document Classification from Google for Rankings and Personalized Search
- Stop Taking Water for Granted
- How Google May Use Categories as a Search Ranking Factor
- Does Bing Time Shift Search Results?
- Google Patent on URL Compression and the Mobile Web
- Google May Insert Links to a Digital Map System on Web Pages
- Touring Google Maps
- Bad Dates in Google Snippets: Hey Google, I've Blogged a Little Since 2005!
- Could Yahoo Launch a Smarter Instant Search?
- Google Instant: Tradeoffs Include Less Implied Local Results?
- Google to Move StreetViews Indoors with Mobile Camera Device?
- How a Search Engine Might Rerank Search Results Based upon Topics
- Would Google Offer Embedded Search Links to Site Owners?
- SEO Quiz
- Apple to Take on Google in Showing Immediate Search Results?
- Hornet's Balls and Gold Mining
- Google's Affiliated Page Link Patent
- Facebook Places vs. Yahoo's Who, What, When, Where (W4) Communications Network Patent?
- Not Brands but Entities: The Influence of Named Entities on Google and Yahoo Search Results
- Using Search Query Disambiguation with Entity Tags to Understand Intent
- Yahoo on How Internet Activity Can Predict Event Outcomes
- Google Patent Granted on Polite Web Crawling
- Yahoo's Social Search Answer to Google's Aardvark?
- Google and Metaweb: Named Entities and Mashup Search Results?
- How Google Might Fight Web Spam Based upon Classifications and Click Data
- We're All Google's Lab Rats
- How and Why Google Might Estimate the Number of Users Behind an IP Address
- The Importance of the Journey: Search Trails and Destination Pages
- Head URLs and Tail URLs and Bing's Supplemental Index?
- Google Gets Smarter with Named Entities: Acquires MetaWeb
- Mouse Pointer Placement May Influence Google Search Rankings, Advertisement Placement, and Oneboxes
- Bing's Categorized Search Results
- Some Random Observations
- Location Searches at Google
- How Search Engines May Use Geography and Population Info in Deciding to Show News in Web Searches
- Teaching Computers to Read Newspapers: How a Search Engine Might Use OCR to Index Complex Printed Pages
- How Demand Media May Target Keywords for Profitability
- Google as an Internet Archive?
- Rerank Search Results Another 10 Ways
- How Google Might Identify Topics With Inadequate Search Content
- How a Search Engine Might Rerank Search Results Based upon Time-Based Data in Query Logs
- How Query Suggestions May be Identified by Google
- Google Studies How Search Behavior Changes When Searchers Are Faced with Difficult Questions
- Google Word Completion and Search Query Suggestions from Social Network Connections?
- Google Defines Semantic Closeness as a Ranking Signal
- Reasonable Surfer Model: How Link Value Differs Based on Link, Document Features and User Data
- Seed Sites for Search Engine Web Crawls
- New Reason to Submit Businesses to Google Maps: Google Navigator and Personal Information Management Integration?
- Yahoo Exploring Virtual Reality?
- Yahoo Study Shows Search Responsible for 1 in 5 Pageviews Online
- How Search Engines May Crowd Source Web Spam Identification
- Is Your Site Faster than a Fortune 100 Company?
- How a Search Engine May Identify Undesirable Web Pages By Analyzing Inlinks
- How do you start a blog post?
- A Phrase Posting List and Phrase Based Indexing
- Web Browsing History Better Search Engine Ranking Signal than PageRank?
- Search Based upon Concepts: Applied Semantics and Google
- Mapping the Deep Web
- Good SEO
- Before They Were Social
- Playing the Odds: How Probable Meanings May Influence Search Engine Rankings
- Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Patents on Interpreting Dynamic Page URLs
- Government SEO: What Do Local Government Web Sites Offer Visitors?
- Will Google Bring Us Tabbed Windows on TV?
- A Time and Season for Search: How Data Mining Can Influence Search Advertising
- Why a Search Engine Might Choose Something Other Than Meta Descriptions for Page Summaries in Search Results
- How a Search Engine Might Choose Text for Quicklinks or Site links
- Apple Streaming Media Patent Filing Hints at New Approach for iTunes Store
- How a Search Engine Might Weigh Pages with Relevant Annotations Higher in Search Results
- Xerox Brings Patent Infringement Suit Against Google, Yahoo, and YouTube
- SEO for Government: Trying to Find My Town on the Web
- The Evolution of Search Results into Query Portals
- Google Book Search Patent Offers Copyright Protection, Not Censorship
- The Google Image Treasure Hunt?
- Google's Forum Search Results
- Having Fun with -Onyms in Keyword Research
- Paid Search Results and Query Expansion using Synonyms and Related Concepts
- Virginia SEO and Internet Marketing Meetup for Small Business
- Facebook Patent Filings (Updated)
- Apple vs. Google vs. Yahoo on Location Awareness and Parking
- Google Synonyms Update
- Web Self-Help for Small Business
- What Personalization Means to Search
- Forget Search, Yahoo May Start Helping You Find Parking Spaces
- Finding State Capitol Buildings in Google Maps
- The Lost Google I'm Feeling Bored Button
- How Google Might Enable Property Owner Advertising in Streetviews Images
- Have You Ever Seen Delicious Quick Links?
2009
- How Google Might Let you Shop by Camera Phone
- Google Search Synonyms Are Found in Queries
- What Did Search Look Like a Decade Ago?
- Microsoft on Navigational Search Queries and Best Match
- How Search Engines Might Divine the Intent behind Regional Queries vs. Global Queries
- Google Barcodes and Place Rank Transforming Local Search
- Google Patent Granted on Duplicate Content Detection in a Web Crawler System
- How a Search Engine May Choose Search Snippets
- MetaRAM's Memory Chip Patents Assigned to Google
- How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
- Patent Shows Google Book Scanning a Musical Process
- Search Taxonomies to Answer Questions on Webpages
- How Search Engines May Rank User-Generated Content
- Search Engines May Adjust Rankings based on Click and Query Log Patterns
- The Importance of Listening
- Search Query Traffic from Bots and from Humans
- How Search Engines Might Expand Abbreviations in Queries
- Google TrustRank
- Getting Involved Locally to Overcome Climate Change
- 10 SEO Questions
- Yahoo Web Page Segmentation: Distinguishing Noise from Information
- Good Luck Searching for San Francisco Skateboarding Laws
- Google Webmaster Tools Patent on Crawl Rates
- Google Approach to Making Online Ratings Easier...
- The Anchor Text Sparsity Problem
- Search Engines Applying Different Anchor Text Relevance from the Same Site and Related Site Links
- Evaluating the Relevancy of Search Results Based upon Position
- Google Subscribed Links Patent: Why Do Some OneBox Results Require No Subscription?
- A Taxonomy of Rewriting Search Terms
- Does the Ownership of Redirected URLs Matter to Search Engines?
- Search Experiment Papers from Google's Mad Scientists
- How a Search Engine Might Analyze the Linking Structure of a Web Site
- Creating an SEO Content Inventory
- Using Rare Words to Estimate Search Engine Index Sizes
- Should Webmasters Pick Their Own Quicklinks in Search Results?
- Google News Rankings and Quality Scores for News Sources
- Most Common Words in Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask, with Google Caffeine
- Query Suggestion Strategies that Search Engines May Use
- Keywords and Content and Search Suggestions from Time-Related Queries
- Are Search Engines Doing SEO Forum Mining to Find Web Spam?
- Google Acquisition of On2 Technologies for Video Technology, and for Hantro Mobile Technology, Too
- Opinion Summaries in Google Maps Reviews
- Does Page Load Time influence SEO?
- Search Engines Evaluating Search Results
- My Favorite Travel Site
- How a Search Engine Might Determine Search Engine Relevance from Related Queries
- How Search Engines May Decide Upon and Optimize Query Suggestions
- Google Geocoding Addresses
- Breaking Pages Apart: What Automatic Segmentation of Webpages Might Mean to Design and SEO
- Ordering Images (and other Multimedia) in Search Results By Predicting Clickthroughs
- Crawling Pages to Address Needy Queries and Search Impact
- Semantic Relations from Query Logs
- Search Engines and Polysemous Words
- How Search Engines Might Identify and Handle Soft 404 pages and Login-Required Pages
- How Google May Rate Raters
- Google's New Review Search Option and Sentiment Analysis
- Search Engine Robots Sharing Cookies?
- Google on Measuring Impressions of In-Game Advertisements
- Transforming Events Pages from Transitory to Evergreen Content
- Microsoft Bing, with Powerset Inside
- Problems with Portals: Yahoo on Keeping Visitors Around
- Writing Content for Small Businesses Online
- Boosting Brands, Businesses: How a Search Engine May Rewrite a Query Using Entity Detection
- How Geographical Intent on a Page may help Optimize Pages Better
- Google's Paid Search Human Evaluators
- Predictive Search Query Suggestions
- Measuring Google TV Advertising and Privacy
- Should Search Engines Refer Searchers to Other Search Engines?
- Search on the Seas: Google Water-Based Data Center Patent Granted
- Google Local Search, Categories, and the What and Where of Local Map Listings
- How Google Might Top Search Results with Additional Information
- Ask Since Jeeves: Adding Video News within Search Results to Image and News Clustering
- Google Patent Application on How Users Can Add Pages to Search Results
- What if Google provided Link Annotations on the Web?
- Proposed FTC Endorsement and Testimonial Ad Revisions
- Yahoo Site Links: Quicklinks for Navigational Queries
- XML Sitemaps Help Index Fresh Content Quicker
- Is Game Playing the Future Ranking System for Search Results?
- Do Search Engines Look at Keywords in URLs?
- Google Patent Granted on Web Link Spam
- Related Queries Might Influence Customized Google Search Results
- What are the Top Phrases for Your Website?
- Compound Words in Search Advertising and SEO
- Understanding Intentions and Microsoft Search Personalization
- Exploring Connections Between Books in Google Book Search
- Study on the Structure of Search Queries
- Searcher Intent from Analysis of Search Engine Query Logs
- Test your Blog
- How Yahoo Might Automate SEO
- Google to Expand Language Search and Shrink Our World?
- Next Step After XML Sitemaps: User-Assisted Web Crawlers?
- What Kind of Personality Does Your Website Have?
- Would You Give A Search Engine a 3D Model of Your Body?
- What are Reciprocal Links?
- Are Two Queries Better Than One in Targeting Search Advertisements?
- Copyrights and Copy Wrongs: What is Copyright and Copyright Infringement?
2008
- How a Search Engine Might Use Synonyms to Rewrite Search Queries
- Social Responsibility And The Small Business
- Green New Year's Resolutions
- Dominant Media Elements in Search Engine Results
- Search Trails: Destinations, Interactive Hubs, and Way Stations
- How Search Query Burstiness Could Increase Page Rankings
- Google Profile Information and Partner Content Providers: Should there be Disclosure?
- Domain Collapsing, Indented Pages, and Search Results
- How Google Might Advertise on Social Networks
- Google to Help Content Creators Find Unauthorized Duplicated Text, Images, Audio, and Video?
- How Google Might Personalize Search Results
- Google Using Novel Content as a Ranking Signal?
- Preferred Country Results at Google
- Search Pogosticking and Search Previews
- Webspam Classification by Looking at Query and Page Features
- Impossible to Light a Candle on Election Day
- Google Universal Search Patent Granted
- Google Patents
- Search Engines and the Most Popular Search Queries
- Google Advertising on TV, Podcasts, and Radio
- Search Engines, Poverty, and Opportunity: Google Blocking Chrome Downloads in Syria and Iran
- What Suggestions Would You Offer a Beginning Blogger?
- How Search Engines May Provide Searchers with Related Search Queries
- Microsoft Granted Patent on Vision-Based Document Segmentation (VIPS)
- A Search Engine May Add Related Entity Information in Search Results
- Updating Google's Historical Data Patent, Part 2 - Changing Content
- Google Phrase-Based Indexing Patent Granted
- How Search Engines May Use Images to Rank Web Pages
- Updating Google's Historical Data Patent, Part 1 - Freshness
- Search Engines Extracting Table Data on the Web
- Creation and Ranking of Image Annotation Suggestions
- Machine Translation at Google
- How a Search Engine Might Handle Singular and Plural Queries
- Google Stopwords and Stop-Phrases
- The Entropy of Search Logs and Personalization with Backoff
- How Using Query Categories Can Help Searchers, Writers, and Search Engines
- Pro Bono Opportunities for Non Profit Web Site Marketing and Development
- Yahoo Robots Combat Spam and Phishing
- Google Local One Box Results
- Which Sections of Your Web Pages Might Search Engines Ignore?
- Yahoo Patents Anchor Text Relevance in Search Indexing
- How a Search Engine May Expand Search Queries Based upon Popularity Measured by User Behavior
- Yahoo Cooking with Gas: Food Search on the Web
- How a Search Engine Might Use a Searcher's Knowledge, Interests, and Education to Rerank and Validate Search Results
- How Google Universal Search and Blended Results May Work
- Google's Virtual Bookshelf Plans?
- How Search Engines Can Do Object Block Ranking
- Google on Archiving and Retrieving Documents Using Your Camera Phone
- Search Engines Learn From Search Query Sequences
- Phone Keyboards and Seachers Using Predictive Query Suggestions
- How Search Engines May Substitute Search Terms for Yours
- Community Tagging and Ranking Landmark Images
- A Personalized Search Using Advanced Search Operators
- Web Page Segmentation, and Identifying the Most Important Block
- Microsoft on Organizing Information in Storylines
- Ranking Images in Search Engines
- Google Ads Based upon Toolbar Collected User Behavior Data
- Duplicate Webpages at Different URLs on a Site
- Associating Search Ads with Links Instead of Keywords
- Do Domain Ages Affect Search Rankings?
- Ambiguous Locations on Google
- Celebrating Earth Day 2008
- Microsoft on Determining Search Engine Spam From Email Spam
- Google Granted Patent Can Filter Distortion in Unused TV White Spaces
- Building Green is Building Naturally
- How Google Sets Worked
- Page Relevance Determined by Anchor Text
- Add Some Green to Your Life
- Address Completion in Google Local Search
- Redefining Navigational Queries to Find Perfect Sites
- Smarter Google Maps Would Add Movement and Templates for Tasks
- Yahoo Automates Usability Consulting
- The Importance of Page Layout in SEO
- Microsoft Tracking Search and Browsing Behavior to Find Authoritative Pages
- Yahoo on Segmenting Web Sites into Topical Hierarchies
- New Google Process for Detecting Near Duplicate Content
- Searching Future Events Using Yahoo News
- Google Omits Needless Words (Boilerplate)
- Microsoft on Personalized Phone Portals
- Yahoo Phrase Based Indexing in a Nutshell
- Microsoft on Reranking Search Results Based Upon Your Calendar
- Mysterious Google Interface Design
- Yahoo on Collecting User Data for Web Site Profiling
- Trademarking Air
- Interview with Eric Hebert on Digital Music Marketing
- The Google Acquisition of Innuvo, and the Google Web Toolkit
- Google on Automatic Video and Image Annotation
- Yahoo's 'Universal Search' and Vertical Search Suggestions
- Patent Filing on Interactive Elements of Google's Keyhole Markup Language
- New Google Approach to Indexing and Stopwords
- Yahoo Replaces PageRank Assumptions with User Data
- Nominations for Semmys and Thanks for SEJ Awards
- Yahoo on Testing Relevance and Variety in Search Results
- Google Bookmarks and Personalization
- Bill Gates and Company Want to Watch You Watch TV, Buy Groceries, and Use Your Credit Cards and Cell Phone (and Take Notes)
- Will We Ever See Google Personal Ads?
- Google on Reading Text in Images from Street Views, Stores and Museums
- Google Patent Application on a User Interface for a Phone
- Remainders from 2007: Good Stuff I Didn't Get to Yet
2007
- 2008 is the Year of the Frog
- Malicious Web Sites: Identification and Filtering
- And the winner is....
- How Does Google Know the Language of a Query?
- Reranking Search Results Based Upon Personalization and Diversification
- Do Search Engines Hate Blogs? Microsoft Explores an Algorithm to Identify Blog Pages
- The Southpark Google Organizational Information Flow Patent Application
- How does Google Pick Search Snippets for Your Pages to Show in Results?
- How Yahoo May Use Toolbar Data to Refine Search Results
- Google Toolbar 5: Sync Your Settings and Share Your Browsing History
- Google on Anchor Text Indexing and Crawl Rates
- Yahoo on Visualizing Community Use of Social Media Sites
- Google Health: Advertising to Physicians and Privacy Concerns?
- Comparing Personalized Search Tools
- Google on Crawling Websites
- Pubcon and Missing Casinos
- Google on Desktop Search and Personal Information Management
- Google on Webspam, Doorway Pages, and Manipulative Articles
- Landing Pages and Google's Website Optimizer Patent Applications
- Google on Generating Statistics from Search Engine Query Logs (Google Trends and More)
- Information Gathering: Innovation After Google?
- Monetizing Google Platforms?
- Might Google Notebooks Influence Web Rankings?
- Google and Personalization in Rankings
- The Google Advanced Search that Could Have Been
- Microsoft on Index Partitioning
- Microsoft Using Blocks to Understand Which Are the Most Important Images
- OpenSocial and the Google Patent Filings
- Green Communities and Social Networks
- Mr. Slawski Goes to Washington
- Yahoo Query Revisions Based upon Anchor Text Pointing to Search Results
- Ranking factors for Your Google Earth Video and Other Objects
- Microsoft Search on the Seasonality of Keywords
- Measuring User Engagement, with Examples from Yahoo
- Ask.com on Flagging Famous People
- Mouse vs. EyeTracking: Mouse Wins, plus Successful Search Strategies
- Google on Determining Document Subjects
- Second Thoughts on a GPhone: Privacy and Targeted Ads
- Google's Profiling Both Users and Sites?
- Google Learning Speech Recognition for Voice Search from MTV?
- Google on Using Named Entity Disambiguation to Make Searches Smarter
- Google Determining Search Authority Pages and Propagating Authority to Related Pages
- Would You Rent Your Rooftop to Google To Show Ads Upon?
- Smaller Screens Means Smarter Image Processing by Search Engines
- Erik Selberg Leaves Microsoft Live, Joins Amazon
- Search Engine Classification and Assignment of Categories
- Transient Links to Avoid Crawling Advertisement and Session Tracking Links
- An Expansion of Importance Scores for Web Page Rankings?
- How Does Congress Use Google? Mentions on the Congressional Record
- Microsoft on Javascript Redirection Spam
- Google on Multi-Tiered Indexing and a Document Processing System
- 20 More Ways that Search Engines May Rerank Search Results
- Intel's Mash Maker Now in Technology Preview Release
- Google Patent on Desktop Search and Implicit Queries Based Upon Active Documents
- How Previous Searchers' Queries Could Be Used to Re-Rank Your Search Results
- Yahoo's Usama Fayyad on Datamining, More Effective Advertising on Yahoo, and Social Media
- Using Search Results People Click Upon to Understand Events Tied to Queries
- The Wisdom of Search Crowds: Google Research on Datamining Queries
- Some Recent Google Papers on Usability and User Testing
- On Google Plumbing References from Social Networking Sites Such as Orkut to Rank Articles
- Google's 10 Oddest Patents
- Private Maps from Yahoo to Let Friends Track Each Other
- Google Checkout Precursor Gpay More Ambitious Than Paypal?
- Patent Filings on Google Finance Provide a Glimpse at Google's Financial News Gathering
- Yahoo on Using Exceptional Changes in Snapshots of the Web to Ban, Penalize, or Flag Websites
- On Personalized PageRank and Personalized Anchor Text Scores
- San Jose Adventures, Part 1 - the most famous garage in Silicon Valley
- Google & Fact Extraction, Normalization, and Visualization
- Could You Be Delivering Ads of Your Choosing for Google in the Future?
- Personalized Anchor Text Scores
- Making Sense of Search Queries by Using Context
- Facebook Timeline and Patent Application
- Next Week: Search Engine Strategies San Jose
- Yahoo Tactics Associating Geographic Search with Searcher Location
- When Might Google Show Local Search Information in Web Search Results?
- On Supplemental Index Results, Partitioned Indexing, and Extended Indexes
- Search, Buy, Receive Valuable Points, Provide Feedback to Rank Advertisements
- Geographic Coding in Google Location Searches
- Google on Data Visualization
- Google Timelines, Fact Maps, and Fact Relevance Rankings
- Search Indexing Dead Ends: IBM Patent Explores Dangling Nodes
- Yahoo Tag Suggestions Use Goodness to Combat Tag Spam
- ChaCha Search - Is People Powered Search Better?
- Why Sometimes Best Search Results aren't Always Top Search Results
- Google Patent Granted on Semantic Units (Meaningful Compounds)
- Looking at Final Landing Pages for Suggestions for Query Revisions
- The Influence of Search Result Listings (Captions) on Clickthroughs
- Long Tail Studies by Web Search Researchers
- Search Engines Crawling FAQs to Learn How to Answer Questions?
- Google on Converting Spreadsheets to Web Applications
- Google Toolbar History
- Disagreeing with Dr. Nielsen: Google's Dynamic Search Box
- Google Alerts for New Results from Old Searches
- 14 Ways to Use a Google Visual Mobile Search System
- Recommended Alerts From Google
- Search Engines and Expansion of Acronyms
- Google's New Acquisition Postini and their Patent Filings
- Can Web Search Use Wikipedia to Understand References to Names?
- Yahoo Sidebar Patent Applications
- Patent Applications on Estimating, Rating, and Using Quality Scores for Google Ads
- Intel's MashMaker Demo to Debut in Closed Beta in July
- Google Patent Granted on Customizing Travel Directions
- Exploring Yahoo's Photosharing Applications
- Papers from the Eighth ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce 2007
- How Google Crawls Facts on the Web
- Google's Place Rank and Interestingness - Ranking Geographic Entities in Maps/Earth for Display
- Google Earth & Maps Advertising Patent Application
- Ask.com on Trends, Freshness, Personalization, and Better Search Results
- Predictive Queries versus Unique Searches
- Better Business Location Search using OCR with Street Views
- When Choosing an eCommerce System, Remember the Search Engines
- Google Acquires Webfonts Presentation Developers, Zenter, Inc.
- Search Engine Caching
- Microsoft Study Takes Navigational Sitelinks a Step Further
- Yahoo Patent Filings on Indexing and Advertising Using Geographic Boundaries
- Should a Search Engine Sell Business Intelligence Gathered from Searchers' Queries?
- How Google Rejects Annoying Advertisements and Pages
- Google's User Distributed Search Results in Emails, IMs, Blogger
- New Google Ranking Patents
- Context Sensitive Stemming for Web Search
- Search Engines Learning from Advanced Searchers?
- Google Mass Media Patent Applications
- Google Fighting Phishing Websites
- Ask.com Wants to Search Sites for You
- Google Transit Information (Using Your Phone)
- How Google Might Handle Fraudulent Adwords Advertising
- Improving Text Segmentation for Displaying Advertisements and Filtering Search Results
- Google's Green Border Technologies Patent Filings
- Big Maps, Big Data: Google's Keyhole Flatfile Patent
- User Intent and Characteristics of Search Queries
- Google Plus Box Patent Application
- Mindmapping Audiences and Tasks for Category and Keyword Development
- Using a Local Category Synonym to Refine Queries
- Followup on Google's Historical Data Patent Application
- Google File System & Large Scale Machine Learning System Patents Granted
- Dual Trustrank, User Profiles, and Personalized Rerankings of Search Results
- Google Local for Mobile Patent Applications
- Microsoft's UserRank - Query Independent Ranking Based Upon User Logs
- Yahoo Tackles Geographic Challenges of Web Search Results
- Calculating Search Rankings with User Web Traffic Data
- Recent Readings on SEO, Search, and Rankings
- Google's Universal Search Patent Application & Assigned Patents from Infoseek
- Search Engine APIs vs Search Engine Results
- Search Result Snippets and the Perception of Search Quality
- Study Concludes Robots.txt Files Should be Replaced
- Link Analysis, Web Spam, and the Cautious Surfer
- Yahoo's Clickable Map Advertising with Product Inventory Displays
- User Popularity Data for Ranking Search Results
- Stanford Using the Block Structure of the Web for Computing PageRank
- Yahoo Patent Application Challenges Other Search Engines
- Yahoo Information Navigation Interface
- Geo Targeted Advertising for Google Maps and Google Earth
- Google Holiday Logos and Ads Patent Application
- Link Based Clustering Could Allow Google to Group Search Results
- Guest Speaking at the University of Delaware
- Google Base Patent Applications: Searching, Labeling, and Ranking User Generated Data
- Exploring Click and Pay to Call (CPTC) Google Phone Ads
- Yahoo to Use Query Histories to Improve Search Results?
- Google Local OneBox Midpage Results?
- Queryless Recommendations at Google, Stumbleupon, and eBay
- Google, Paid Links, and the FTC Staff Letter On WOM
- Integrating Online and Offline Shopping: Buying at the Babies "R" Us
- Google Sourcers' Training Video
- Google's Marratech Software Acquisition and Patent Filings
- Google's Web History Patent Applications
- Google's Historical Data Ranking Factors Revisited, Plus Advertising Rankings
- Google's Presentation Patent Application (via Tonic Systems)
- Papers for Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization
- Future of Web Search Conference Videos
- Targeted Audio Advertising with Google Part 3 - Conclusion
- Targeted Audio Advertising with Google, Part 1 - Examples
- Doubleclick + Google: Looking at Some of the Doubleclick Patent Filings
- Ask.com Announces New Search Algorithm "Edison"
- Yahoo! Contextual Advertisements in Print Publications
- Five Reasons Why I Blog
- Google at the Crime Scene: Profiling Websites, Estimating Traffic, and Combating Click Fraud
- Google Reviews: Reputation + Quality + Snippets + Clustering
- Technorati Patent Filing on Blog Spam
- Yahoo Podcasting and Media Tagging Patent Applications
- Google News Personalization
- Building an Online Community in Your Community
- Ask.com Patent Application Discusses Responding to User Queries
- NASA's Light-Sailing, Miniature, Nanotechnology-Based Spacecraft Artificial Intelligence Management Patent Application
- Google Alerts Tell Google What Topics are Popular
- Google Games Patent Filing on Targeted Advertisements
- Google Local Search in China: Export Restrictions, Filtering Sensitive Keywords, and Limited Data
- Baseball, SEO, and Redirects: Throwing the Gyroball
- PageRank, Self-Serving Links, and Domain Trust
- Yahoo Local vs Google Maps Beatdown
- Letting Advertisers Decide Upon Values of Ads: Impressions, Click-Throughs, and Pay-Per-Action
- Searching Google on a Phone Without a Browser
- Yahoo Research Looks at Templates and Search Engine Indexing
- Google's Patent Application on Advertising Offline
- Microsoft Follows the Money to Find Spammers
- Technorati Top 100 Blogs Confusion?
- Baseball Band's Myspace Marketing
- Google Patent Application Clustering Users for Personalization
- Personalized Search from Tracking Triplets of Users, Queries, and Pages
- Industrial Music Marketing
- Google AdWords Select Interface Design Patent Granted
- Papers from the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- Google Local Search Glossary
- Yahoo's Predictive Queries, Invisible Tabs, and Temporal and Monetization Bias Experiments
- Patent Application on Google's Sitemaps and Mobile Sitemaps
- Is Microsoft Removing Web Results When the Same Page Also Appears in Paid Results?
- Google Gadgets Patent Application: Plug-In Modules in a User Interface
- A Peek into Google's Desktop Search Indexing Algorithms
- Google on Letting Searchers Remove Documents from the Web
- Google Open Source and Open Standards
- Ask.com Patent on Optimizing Search Results Pages Based Upon User Activity
- Mobile Patent Applications Roundup - 2-19-2007 - Personalized Phone Numbers
- Does Linden Research Patent Point to the Future of Second Life?
- Microsoft on Blog Rolls and Ranking Blog Content
- Google Acquires Adscape Media: Interactive Online Gaming Advertisement and Gaming System Developers
- Feedback on Custom Search Engines
- Mining User Queries to Extract Information From Web Pages
- MyBlogLog Interview
- Google and Misspelled Queries
- Eyepointing Interface Research at Stanford
- 10 Reasons to Have a Web Site
- Yahoo Search Marketing Ads: Distribution and Propagation, Reports, and Alerts
- Location Prominence and Differences in Local OneBox and Google Maps
- Remixing the Future of Copyright: Pam Samuelson at Yahoo
- Clickability Scores, Media Plans, and Historic Click-throughs: More Yahoo Search Marketing Patent Applications
- Google Patent on Extended Search Indexes
- Search Engines, Personalization, and Trustworthy Recommender Systems
- Local Search Interviews
- Mobile Patent Applications Roundup - 2-3-2007 - Microsoft's Minority Report Styled Display Ads
- Hypertext Pioneer Ted Nelson Speaks at Google
- Web Spam on University Sites
- 13 New Yahoo Search Marketing Patent Applications
- Google Boosts the Importance of Local Search
- Mobile Patent Roundup 1-26-2007 - Reranking Searches by Language Used
- What Google Advertisments on Mobile Phones Might Look Like
- Missing Content in Search Engines and Difficult Queries
- Google OneBox and Measuring User Behavior
- Google's Product Recommendation Widget Patent
- A Google Approach to Improving Location Information Accuracy
- Mobile Patents Roundup - 1-19-2007 - A Mobile Search Plugin Platform
- Optimizing Buildings for Driving Directions
- Google's Scoring for Content-Relevant Advertisements
- Search Articles from E-LIS
- Nokia Patents Voice Tagging of Pictures
- Does Alexa Use Search Results to Identify Related Pages?
- User Interfaces for News Aggregators
- Studying the User Behavior of Non-Human Web Searchers
- Tigers Don't Stand on Boxes: Signaling Theory in Design
- Mobile Patents Roundup - January 12, 2007
- Yahoo Personalized Search Stream Queue
- On Rewriting the Wealth of Nations
- Dialing Microsoft for Voice Search
- Social Trustrank and User Annotations as Anchor Text
- Google Asks 'Can You Hear Me Now'
- The Suitability of Websites for Participation in an Advertising Network
- Google Q&A Patent Applications?
- Patent Documents Mentioning the Open Directory Project in 2006
2006
- Google Ad Configurations, Quality Scores, and Ad Types
- Language Matching Ranking in Search Results
- Google Earth Video, Layers, Environmental Activism, and Links
- Phrase Based Indexing and Spam Detection
- Using Page Quality to Overcome Bias in Ranking Newer Sites
- Things My Neighborhood Psychic Didn't Tell Me About Search
- How Google Might Decide to Index Your Site for Mobile Search
- Google's Listings of Internal Sitelinks for Top Search Results
- Might Local Search be Improved by Breaking it Into Smaller Topics?
- Google Advertising On Billboards, Kiosks, TV, and Other Displays
- Search Engine Journal Opens Up Voting for 2006 Search Blogs Awards
- Google Patent Search Results Added to Google Scholar
- Ask.com Patent on Reranking by User Affinity
- Sunday Night Link Roundup
- Smaller Screens Make Smarter Search Engines
- Web Design as Visionary Art
- Yahoo's Universal Advertisement Services Architecture
- Google's Implementation of Scrum Tuning in Adwords
- Legal Evidence and the Growth of Social Networks
- Assigning Geographical Locations to Web Pages
- Location Sensitivity in Google Local Search
- Yahoo Confab Micro-Conferences Start Wednesday
- Trends in Search Related Patents
- Using Anchor Text to Find Documents in Other Languages
- Detecting Online Commercial Intent (OCI) in Queries and Web Pages
- How Search Engines May Look at Queries Which Include Locations
- Interactive Maps in Yahoo Trip Planner
- Pay Per Percentage Patent Filed by Microsoft
- Location Prominence at Google in Ranking Businesses at a Location
- Dodgeball Patent Application: Location and Mobile Based Social Software Bringing Assisted Serendipity
- Yahoo Awarded Alerts Patent
- Yahoo's Studies on Mobile Camera Phones and Geo-Referencing Images
- Stanford WebBase: Google's Academic Cousin
- Eye-Tracking Studies at Google
- Just Where is Yahoo Going? New and Old Acquisitions
- Looking for a Library on Google Local
- Riya Patent Applications for Visual Recognition and Search Technology
- Local Search at Rest, and Local in Motion
- Spam Identification and Search Engine Rankings
- Monday Morning Links
- Microsoft Explains Duplicate Content Results Filtering
- A Role for Time and Query Quality in Search Results
- Google Page Creator Patent Application Published
- Google Acquires Jotspot, Inc. & Wiki Patent Application
- Microsoft Virtual Earth and Local Search Patent Applications
- Building Links with Creative Commons
- Flickr Interestingness Rankings Patents Released
- Amazon Acquisitions and Investments
- Patents involved in IBM vs Amazon
- Science Fiction Author David Brin Visits Google
- Google Patent Filing Looks at Trademarks and Adwords
- Search Query Researcher Amanda Spink
- Google Diving into Deep Web Indexing
- Yahoo Acquires Fysix Corp, Enters Partnership with Right Media
- Infrastructure and Expertrank at Ask.com
- 20 Ways Search Engines May Rerank Search Results
- Google Query Revision Strategies
- Belgian Copyright Case Expands in Scope; MSN Also Contacted by Copiepresse
- AOL Top AIM Developer Joins Google
- Research on Travel Related Search Queries
- Google Personalization Methods
- Of Train Man and Demon Wife: The Popularity of Blogging and Bulletin Boards in Japan
- Google's Query Rank, and Query Revisions on Search Result Pages
- How Tasks and Gender May Influence How People Google
- Studying the Wikipedia Over Time
- Google a Cab - Intelligent Fleet Management
- Microsoft Explores Self Organizing Maps and Search Indexes
- Microsoft Creating Rules for a Canonical URL
- A Peek at Personalization at Yahoo
- How to Use Topic Familiarity to Rerank Search Results
- New Blog on Local Search
- Belgian Copyright Ruling Against Google News
- Reranking Search Results Based Upon Mobile Friendly Sites
- Google, dMarc, and Targeted Radio Advertising, Part Two
- Google, dMarc, and Targeted Radio Advertising, Part One
- Google's Quiet Acquisition of Transformic, Inc.
- Location Information: Location Still Matters on the Web
- Reranking Search Results Based Upon Concepts in Users' Queries
- Ranking Search Results by File Type and by Click Distance
- SEO and Compound Words, Inflections, and Alternative Spellings
- Structured Information in Google's Local Search
- Google's Legitimacy Ratings: Should a Search Engine Determine the Legitimacy of Advertisers and Content Providers?
- The Growing Power of Online Reviews
- Duplicate Pages - Solving Different URLs with Similar Text (DUST)
- Google Archives to Appear Soon?
- Benefits of Nested Rankings of Search Results
- Yahoo and Category-Biased Pagerank
- Microsoft Looks at Category Based Link Weights
- Danny Sullivan Leaves Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies
- What Do You Do With a Database of AOL User Queries?
- How Do You Estimate the Size of A Search Engine?
- Google looks at Ranking Based upon Editorial Opinion
- Jim Hedger's Interview with Jill Whalen
- Page Quality and WebSpam: Using Content Analysis to Detect Spam Pages
- Ask.com Using Queries to Detect and Filter Adult Content?
- Google's Personalized Ecommerce Inheritance
- Google Acquires Neven Vision: Adding Object and Facial Recognition Mobile Technology
- Google Coupons the Start of Something Bigger
- Some Pictures from Sonoma, San Francisco, and San Jose
- IBM Granted Patent for Pagerank
- Google Identifies Navigation Bars for Small Screens, Snippets, and Indexing
- Goodbye SES San Jose
- Google as a Recommendation System
- Attending Wordcamp 2006 and SES San Jose 2006
- Which Newark is Dominant? Classification of Ambiguous Geographical References
- Pizza at the Center of New York: Relevancy, Google Local, and Local Results in Organic Searches
- Cheers for Google's New Accessible Search
- Will the Government Link to Your Pages?
- Conceptual Highlighting in Electronic Text
- An Early Personalized Recommendation System - Firefly
- Authority Pages for Businesses in Google's Local Search
- Google and Visual Segmentation for Local Search
- Automated Search Ad Approval Process
- Google Ads on Handheld Devices, For Local Area Advertisements
- Ending Gridlock with Google Driving Assistance (Zipdash Re-Emerges)
- New Papers at Google Labs
- Google's Holy Grail of Shopping?
- How to Personalize Web Search
- Content Planning for Search Engine Optimization
- Should Search Engines Help Searchers Avoid Malicious Sites?
- Mining Search Queries for Information
- Google Autolink Patent
- User Behaviour: Deletion Predictions
- How Google Manages Large Amounts of Data?
- Innovating Product Reviews at Google
- Sebastien Billard's Interview with Danica Brinton of Ask
- Spam Email Filtering Based Upon Links
- Learning from the Spanish Web
- Duplicate Content Issues and Search Engines
- Google predictive queries
- Pagerank Patent Updated
- Microsoft Reranking and Information Redundancy
- Contextual Ads on Parked Domains
- Web Decay and Broken Links Can be Bad for Your Site
- Trying Out Open Source Content Management Systems
- The Value of Embedded Links
- What Technorati and the Associated Press Joining Forces Means to Bloggers
- Expanding Google Suggest in Legal Dispute
- Google Aiming at 100 Billion Pages?
- Apple to Embed Ads and Marketing Information in iTunes?
- Google Notebook Released
- Trust and the Internet: Search Engine Bias
- Testing Google and Yahoo Alerts
- Trust and the Internet: Web Search Spam
- On a Hypertext Roadtrip
- Does Google use whois information?
- Google on Improving Adsense/Adwords
- Microsoft Patents Dynamic Ranking Changes
- Advertising on an Electronic Billboard via the web
- Improving the Wikipedia results for Search Engine Optimization
- Organizing social tags into hierarchies
- A Look at Google Midpage Query Refinements
- Joining Search Engine Watch as a correspondent on patents
- Google's Adaptive PageRank Patent
- SEO, PPC, and the US government
- Google micropayments patent application published
- Google Voice Query Patent Granted
- Adding more factors to Microsoft's sliders
- 20 links on search and design
- Ranking Search Results Using Featured Based Rankings
- Patent applications provide window into Google Book Search and Gmail
- Next steps for online real estate?
- Fighting search spam with algorithms
- Search roundup
- New Google patent applications
- IBM and Shadow Pages
- Customized Travel Directions with Google
- Google Book Search Patent Application
- Microsoft and localized media delivery based upon site location
- IBM Tackles Searching Hypertext
- Google Transit Trip Planner in Toronto?
- Yahoo patents Related Nodes in a Social Nework
- The future is local
- Google Mobile Advertisments
- Vertical Creep into Regular Search Results in Google
- Another Google purchase, in 3D software
- Patent on searching books online
- Microsoft launches new search, buys Onfolio
- Fuzzy Pinyins - Correcting Chinese Characters in Search Queries
- A Whole Lot of Wikipedia
- Patents and patent application and the New York SES
- SEO and Defining Site Objectives
- Where Google Definitions Come From
- Multi-Stage Query Processing at Google
- Move over PageRank: Google is Using Phrase-Based Indexing?
- Speaking at SES NY on Search Algorithms and Patents
- Results Clustering Patent Application from Microsoft
- What was the First Search Engine?
- Yahoo Acquisitions - The Middle Years
- Google's most popular and least popular top level domains
- Around the web
- Some new Microsoft patent applications
- Providing Related Links to Documents
- Community Endorsements for Local Searches
- The future of ads on phones?
- Making Search More Efficient: A little about caching and prefetching
- Saw it on the web
- Early Yahoo Acquisitions (the 1990s)
- Google Improving Mobile Search
2005
- Human Friendly Driving Directions From Google?
- A Goto.com Time Capsule: Looking at a Four Year Old Vision of Paid Search
- Yahoo Acquisitions since Overture
- Can Google Read Your Mind? Processing Predictive Queries
- Google TextRank and Book Search? Google Textrank and Book Search?
- Early Google Acquisitions
- Designing with Profiles Inspired by Inuit Art
- Secure Conversion Tracking at Google
- Honored and Surprised: SEO by the Sea was nominated for search blogs awards
- Blogs as infectious diseases: how much faith do you give to search engine patents?
- The competitive keyword game
- Who Knew the Web Would Suck.com? Promotion in the Days Before Search Engines