Google: Patents
Google patent on related entities and what it means for SEO
Contributor Dave Davies pulls key points from a newly awarded Google patent on related entities and points out the ranking benefits of...
Patent 2 of 2: How Google learns to guide purchasing decisions
In a follow-up to his last article, columnist Dave Davies explores a Google patent on guided purchasing, which describes how smartphone...
Patent 1 of 2: How Google learns to influence and control users
Columnist Dave Davies does a deep dive into a recently granted Google patent that describes how your data and context could be used to influence...
Newly-granted Google patent sheds light on how the search engine sees entities
Columnist Dave Davies explains a recent Google patent which hints at how the search engine processes entity information to answer questions....
Exploring a newly granted Google patent around social signals
Columnist Dave Davies takes a deep dive into a recently published Google patent for clues on how the search giant is thinking about social...
3 Google Patents You Need To Know About In 2016
Columnist Pratik Dholakiya outlines three patents that Google is applying for and explains how they could affect search results for you and your...
How Trust & Unique Identification Impact Semantic Search
Is your content trustworthy, and does that matter? Columnist Barbara Starr explores how Google might be using trust as a signal when displaying...
Google Patent Search Upgrade Adds Prior Art & Scholar Results
Google makes it easier for users to find patents with the new Patent Search. Mostly because of Google's efforts behind the PTO’s Patent...
Google Researching AI Technology That Counts Calories By Analyzing A Photo Of Your Food
Google researcher Kevin Murphy said new Im2Calorie technology analyzes the depths of pixels in a food image to identify its shape and...
Structured Data & The SERPs: What Google’s Patents Tell Us About Ranking In Universal Search
Columnist Barbara Starr delves into several Google patents to explore the ways in which the search giant is displaying search results based on...
TV Rank: Google Gets Patent On Using What You’re Watching To Influence Search Results
Google uses a variety of signals to determine how to rank search results, such examining linking patterns on the web, an individual’s...
Google Granted Patent For Panda Algorithm
Google’s Panda update has been one of the most talked about algorithmic updates by SEOs and webmasters since it launched in February 2011....
Google May Be Forced To Pay $1 Billion To Patent Troll
A New York-based “patent troll” called Vringo, through its subsidiary I/P engine, successfully sued Google, Microsoft, AOL and...
Google Patent Search Expands To China, Germany, Canada & WIPO
Google announced they have expanded their database of patent documents within Google Patent Search to include patent documents from an...
Taiwanese Research Firm Claims Patent Law Suit Against Google Search Products
Institute for Information, located in Taipei, Taiwan, has brought a patent lawsuit against Google in the US District Court for the Eastern...
Google’s Matt Cutts Awarded Patent On Detecting Hidden Text & Hidden Links
A new Google patent was awarded today named Systems and methods for detecting hidden text and hidden links. The patent was filed on August 25,...
Patent: How Google May Trick Search Spammers
The SEO community has been buzzing about a newly discovered Google Patent document named Ranking documents. The patent describes how Google may...
Google Redirects Patent Search, Shuts Down Google Related Toolbar, One Pass & Vaccine Finder
After only eight months, the Google Related toolbar is headed to the dead pool. That’s one of several Google products being phased out in...
“Googler Killer”, Cuil, Patent Applications Acquired By Google
Googler Killer, Cuil, which launched in June 2008 and went defunct in September 2010, have had their patent applications acquired by Google....
Google Loses Patent Case Over Linux Servers
The FOSS Patents blog reported that Google lost an important patent case on their Linux server kernels they have been using throughout the...
