Patent Reveals How Google May Interpret Queries Based On Entity Information
SEO expert Bill Slawski shares details from a new patent that sheds light on how Google may use entities to interpret queries.
About
Bill Slawski had been doing SEO since 1996. He was a legal and technical administrator at the highest trial level court in Delaware for 14 years before he started writing on the Web. He blogged about Search and SEO for over a dozen years, and lived near the Pacific in Carlsbad, California.
This page and Bill’s articles are in memory of his work and the knowledge he shared with SEOs around the world. He is missed.
Articles
How Autocomplete Works: The Patent Behind Google’s Query Completions
Learn about the query completion patent that helps Google predict the best autocomplete answers for a user’s search query.
Google Patent Aims to Solve Searchers’ Need for Related Media Content
Learn about a Google patent that enables searchers to explore connections between related entities in different types of media.
Google Patent: Rewriting Queries Based on Context to Meet Intent
A new patent from Google tells us how queries may be rewritten based on the context of those searches to better meet search intent.
How Search Queries Trigger Structured Information Cards (Knowledge Panels)
A recently granted patent describes how Google may use queries to trigger structured information cards and how those queries can evolve over time.
A Personalized Entity Repository in the Knowledge Graph
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Ranked Entities in Search Results at Google
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Author Vectors: Google Knows Who Wrote Which Articles
Google’s author vectors patent shows that they may be able to identify the authors of unlabeled content. Learn more here.
When Google SERPs May Undergo a Sea Change
A Google patent tells us when and how Google may decide upon adjusted search features.
Google to Capture & Learn Our Emotions on a Smartphone Camera?
Google might use our emotional reactions to search results from our smartphone camera to influence the rankings of WebPages.
Google Image Search Labels Becoming More Semantic?
Google Image Searches are associated with Entities, and those image labels may be associated with ontologies about those entities.