Google Search Patents 2020: The Mega-Post Roundup
Look through the list of Google patents throughout the year that passed. Here’s the compilation of Search Patents of interest for 2020.
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Google Search Patent Update – December 18, 2020
Google’s recently awarded patents touch on interesting topics like knowledge panels, machine learning, and more. Read about them here.
Two Latest Google Patents of Interest – November 6, 2020
Here are some interesting Google Search-related patent updates from the past few weeks that are worth checking out.
3 Latest Google Patents of Interest – October 13, 2020
This week’s list of recently granted Google search patents covers vectors, entities, and paramaterless search queries.
A Rundown of Google Patents from the First Half of 2020
Here’s a compilation of all the Google Search Patents of interest for the first six months of 2020.
Latest Google Patents of Interest – March 11, 2020
This week’s Google patent update covers entity elements, knowledge cards, and even some aspects of no-click searching.
Latest Google Patents of Interest – February 25, 2020
Here are a few interesting Google patents that have been granted this week.
Google Search Patent Update – February 18, 2020
Check out some Google search-related patent updates including determining quality score for a content item, proactive virtual assistants, and more.
Google Search Patent Update – January 29, 2020
Here are a few interesting Google patents that recently have been granted.
Understanding the Role of a Technical SEO Audit
Know and understand the key components, best tools, and the right mindset required to effectively do a technical SEO audit.
What Is Forensic SEO?
Forensic SEO may be a term that’s used a lot, but what exactly is it? Find out in this post.
Google Social Search; the Lost Update
Can you imagine there being a change at Google that pre-dates Panda, (and subsequent incarnations) the +1 button, the attribution algo updates and few if...
Would you report a competitor to Google?
I was recently involved with an interesting situation with (yet another) large brand falling out of the good graces with Google. For those playing along...
Paid Links V Content Programs
It all about feeding the Beast! If there’s one topic that is as alive today as it was in year past, it’s paid links. Are...
Google wants to know all about YOU
Convenience or Conspiracy? You Decide. What once started as a convenience for users has, over time, started to sound more like some Orwellian nightmare stalking...
Bing looks at phrases for ranking analysis
When it comes to semantic analysis and how search engines deal with text, there has been a lot of theories thrown about the last while....
Time for another look at TrustRank concepts
How well do you know your neighbours There is a concept that folks don’t really seem to talk about as much as they once did...
Google dynamic linking
One strange and creepy patent Imagine if you had a program that would automatically go through the posts on your site/blog and automatically find concepts...
Adapting SEO for Personalized Search
If there’s one thing that’s made me borderline OCD (happy now Michael?) would be the world of personalized search. Probably more so, behavioural data, is...
Crawling and the real time web
It’s all about happiness metrics A while back I wrote here about how search engines go about discovery, the act of finding your pages. I...
Qualifying SEO clients; keeping Pareto at bay
For the longest time now I have wanted to write about this topic as it’s one that has legs when I am talking to my...
SEO Priorities – Task ROI
I was going to sit down and write a post with my usual brand of geekiness. You know, some more eye-watering patent or IR paper...
How Search Engines Find Your Content
Discovery; where SEO starts… Long before you start to worry about actually ranking content, you need to get it into the index. And of course,...
Why Conversions Can Be a Messy SEO Metric
Seems I am still running into SEOs that believe, however misguided, that conversions are somehow their domain. This seems speak to the fact that many...
A week worth of treats for SEO geeks
Welcome ot another edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social‘ – I hope you are well and getting well into another week in the...
7 Days of Search and Social; the ultimate update
How are we this week my fine SEO geeks and phreaks.. last week was a pretty busy one out in the search blogosphere. Lots of...
Search Geek Weekly News Update; Google Social Search & More
It’s been another week in the trenches and while it may have been a little slow out there, we did have some big news with...
7 Days of Search and Social; more news than you can handle!
Hello my weary web warriors and welcome to another week of news for the search obsessed. It was an interesting week that had some big...
7 Days of Search and Social; the source for search geeks
Hello and welcome to another week in the world of goodiness from the trenches. My name is Dave, and I am a Seriously Obsessed Search...
The Latest in Search and Social News
The fine folks here at SEJ recently asked if we’d bring some of our search geekiness for you as part of a ‘Search Geek News’...