With the patent office workers swamped with patent applications and a shortage of manpower, patent filers have been able to get a higher number of patents approved. Google filed a patent and now the others are following suit. There are five new patents - 2 Google patents, 1 MSN patent, and 2 Yahoo patents. According to Cr8asiteforums.com: Variable personalization of … [Read more...] about A Race for Patents
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Google Launching Classifieds
Classified advertising is a $100 billion-plus industry worldwide. With such a lucrative market, Google is in talks to launch classifieds via partners like Classified Intelligence according to its news release. Google is also seeking classified advertising sites like CareerBuilder and Adicio for direct feeds of listings which would complete its local coverage in search … [Read more...] about Google Launching Classifieds
Personalized Search Results with ‘Remove Result’
Google is currently beta testing a new option that lets you determine what results show up the next time by removing results you don't like from your personalized search results. Matt Cutts, the Google engineer, has more details on how you can try this out at his blog. Could this be the future of search where everyone sees different results? With all the spamming going … [Read more...] about Personalized Search Results with ‘Remove Result’
Google Rankings for “Failure”
Earlier I reported on how pranksters push unwarranted sites like George Bush's biography to the top of the search engine results list by employing Google Bombing tactics. Despite complaints, Google decided not to manually manipulate rankings of the site. Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer products, says: "Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they … [Read more...] about Google Rankings for “Failure”
Big Boys Getting SEO’d
If you are still waiting by the sidelines wondering if SEO is worth going for, you'd better move fast. In just the last couple days, big players with big budgets announced their SEO plans. The first is news publisher Forbes who announced their search engine ranking plans as reported by AdWeek. The second case surprisingly is a company owned by Microsoft. As reported by … [Read more...] about Big Boys Getting SEO’d