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One of the biggest stirs of 2005 in the search marketing field was caused by the release of a patent application from Google titled Information retrieval based on historical data . It introduced time as a dimension of ranking pages, with changes in content and linking and advertising and topics as factors to be considered, as well as rates of change. It discussed signals that might send warnings to search engines that some sites might be engaged in spamming the search engine. It covered seasonality and burstiness of topics, and domain name ownership and a myriad of other subjects, introducing rates and frequencies of changes to web pages, and investigating how freshness and staleness might play a role in determining relevancy.
Google Revisits Historical Data Ranking Factors
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Yahoo Obtains U.S. Patent For Human-Aided Search Ranking Method
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In the local space a number of us have reported on and studied factors that affect ranking in Google Maps . One factor that has been difficult for us to qualify, much less quantify, is that of “Location Prominence.” In the organic world all are familiar with the concept of PageRank, a reiterative view of the web that ranks a website based on the strength of the links coming into a site. Google wanted to fundamentally change how local had been done in the 2004-5 timeframe and looked to create a similar system to evaluate and rank business listings in the Maps index. Whereas PageRank is a heuristic number used to rank websites, in the system that Google engineers came up with, they termed the analogous collection of Local data points the “Location Prominence Score” to rank local business listings. In some ways it is perhaps a more robust deployment of the PageRank concept into the geo spatial world of business listings.
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"Intellectual property is dead." Eric von Hippel, Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, in his keynote address to the World Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization, MIT, October 2007. Go up to a stranger in the street and ask them to give you the keys to their car, and you will receive an abrupt and unhelpful reply.Flickr user sues Virgin Mobile over 'derogatory' ad |
A TEXAS family is suing Australia's Virgin Mobile phone company over an advertisement they claim caused their teenage daughter grief and humiliation. On another Flickr page, the user who uploaded the original photo and a user who claims to be the teenage girl in it can be seen discussing the advertisement. Ms Chang's family claim the experience damaged Ms Chang's reputation and exposed her to ridicule from her peers and people who can now Google her.
When Creative Commons first surfaced, it was heralded as a means to share media without being ensnared by the complications accompanying traditional copyright. With six different licenses available , media creators were provided the opportunity to dial in the exact rights they wanted. Or at least that was the plan. In reality, this bevy of choices has led to significant confusion and as CNN reports , 16 year-old Alison Chang recently learned her picture is being used for a Virgin Mobile ad campaign in Australia.
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Peer to Patent
By JOELLE TESSLER, AP Technology Writer Some of the biggest players in the technology industry complain that the U.S. patent system is broken — putting too many patents of dubious merit in the hands of people who can use them to drag companies and other inventors to court. And Blaise Mouttet, a small inventor in Alexandria, Va., thinks he knows why. The problem, he said, is that "there are too many lawyers and not enough inventors involved with the patent system." So Mouttet is taking part in an experimental program launched in June 2007 with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and backed by the technology industry that is intended to give the public — including inventors — more of a voice in the system.Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!? (by Jeremy Zawodny)
I'm not sure if this is stupidity, laziness, or a mix of both, but check this out. Back when IE7 launched, Yahoo! created a customized version and began to market it to our existing IE users.
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The Economy of Ideas
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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If you're having problems printing the first page(s) of a patent, try saving (right click on the patent link) it to your Desktop, THEN opening it. pat2pdf.org exists thanks to the support of volunter programmers that have kept the site free and running (as much as possible) over several years. Thanks to Oren Tirosh for creating the commandline program.Citing Thomas Jefferson, Paul Ryan talks about helping the little guy stand up to big corporations and protecting kids from unsavory TV programming. So it may come as a surprise that, to many people in the tech industry, he's public enemy No. 1. Ryan is the CEO of Acacia Research, a technology development company that has made waves in the past two years with its controversial practice of acquiring patents from other companies, then seeking royalties and licensing fees from those that may be violating them. "If you look at the great inventions of the 1920s, none of those were invented by large companies," Ryan said, noting that his company often helps small inventors who don't have big corporations behind them. "Patent protection is a fundamental right.
Staking a claim in the patent gold mine |
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Forgent Networks has settled its lawsuit concerning the so-called JPEG patents for $8 million, a fraction of what the company initially sought. The company, an intellectual property firm that licenses communications technology and software for business meetings, announced on Wednesday that it has reached a settlement with all of the remaining claims in the cases involving U.S. patent number 4,698,672 . The company said that the JPEG standard--the image compression mechanism used in digital cameras and PCs--infringed upon the patent, which Forgent acquired in 1997. About 60 companies, including several camera makers, had already cut licensing deals with Forgent. These deals have brought it around $110 million in royalties. Every time a digital camera gets sold, Forgent gets a few dollars because of these deals.Today’s NPR segment, “On YouTube, Popularity Can Be a Curse” discussed intellectual property issues in our era of YouTube-posted videos and antiquated copyright laws. One of the main points was that as YouTube videos become “viral hits,” they often draw higher levels of scrutiny which can result in legal demands to take them offline– especially if they include copyrighted content from television. Jason Fry, assistant managing editor for WSJ.com, asserts in the piece that YouTube is revolutionary because it makes “something that used to be hideously difficult” (posting video to the web, viewing video on the web, and embedding web video in other webpages) relatively easy. He fears, however, that copyright laws could eventually descend and put an end to the popular site.