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SEO by the Sea
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Explores search engine related patents and whitepapers, internet marketing and search engine optimization, usability and web design. Encourages professional and civil discussions regarding search engines and marketing.
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How a Search Engine May Choose Search Snippets
When you search at Google or Yahoo or Bing, you’ll see a set of search results that include a page title, a summary or snippet of the page, and a URL indicating the address of the page. Often, that combination of title, snippet, and URL will ...
Google to Upgrade its Memory? Assigned Startup MetaRAM’s Memory Chip Patents
In August, the Official Google Blog announced an upgrade to Google’s infrastructure code-named Caffeine, aimed at making the search engine faster, and Google opened the system up for testing to people who might want to provide feedback. An int...
How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Usually, when you click on a link in a set of search results at Google, the search engine will deliver you to the top of a web page. But what if it didn’t? What if it brought you instead to the place on a page where your query terms appeared,...
Patent Shows Google Book Scanning a Musical Process
Google was granted a patent today on one aspect of a book scanning process that raises the question what kind of music helps someone scan books best. The patent is Pacing and error monitoring of manual page turning operator (US Patent 7,619,784), whi...
Search Taxonomies and Search Engines: Answering Questions vs. Indexing Webpages
If you were to search for [Ronald Reagan Movies] at Google or Yahoo or Bing, would you expect to see a list of movies that the former President and actor appeared in? It’s more likely that you would see a set of web pages that contain the words...
How Search Engines May Rank User Generated Content
The term “User Generated Content,” often abbreviated as “UGC,” covers a fairly broad range of the words and pictures, images and videos and sounds that you see and hear on the Web. One thing that tends to distinguish “U...

