79 days ago by Bill Slawski

A number of years back, I remember being humbled by a homework assignment crayon drawing by a friend’s son which listed what he was thankful for, and included his parents, his sister, and shoes that Thanksgiving. We take so much for granted that we should be thankful that we have. A few friends and ...

82 days ago by Bill Slawski

A Google+ patent granted last week describes how the search engine might enable people to experiment with changing the weight and value of different ranking signals for web pages to gauge how those changes might influence the quality of search results for specific queries. The patent lists Misha Zat ...

88 days ago by Bill Slawski

Imagine being able to highlight any text on a web page and search the Web based upon that text? Or an easier way to embed videos or other content in windows that will appear and open up without launching a new browser window. Now imagine that your Google+ Plus Circles could engage in friend relation ...

107 days ago by Bill Slawski

You go to a site that you’ve enjoyed and bookmarked sometime in the past but haven’t visited in a while, and it’s changed. The topics it discusses are different, or the writing style isn’t quite the same, or it suddenly has links within its content to commercial pages that it probably wouldn’t have ...

110 days ago by Bill Slawski

When search engines return web pages in search results in response to a query, most people assume that the pages being show are the ones that a search engine has decided are the “best” pages in response to their search terms. But what does the word “best” mean in that context? The search engines att ...

124 days ago by Bill Slawski

A new patent filing from Yahoo raises the question, “How much has social media influenced the expectations of searchers, and forced search engines to change?” Before I can begin to even think about that, I have to ask if looking at Yahoo patents even a good idea after their 2009 deal with Microsoft ...

127 days ago by Bill Slawski

I love local search. It follows many practices similar to Web search, though different often in ways that do reflect an attempt to map the real world. Google+’s Streetview cars are a little like Google’s webcrawler Googlebot, and instead of collecting URLs for Websites, Google Maps collects addresse ...

129 days ago by Bill Slawski

Might Google+ start providing more link options in Google Instant Previews as a result of this acquistion? A company that filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google in 2007,on the day that their last patent was granted, has now assigned all of their patents to Google. The flowchart below is ...

131 days ago by SEO by the Sea

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197 days ago by gerrrg

Google had quietly purchased 1,030 patents from IBM two weeks ago. According to the original story, some of the patents cover "A number of the patents also cover relational databases, object oriented programming, and a wide array of business processes." If you were keeping score, Google just bought ...

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