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Posted By:
theGypsy
235 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Snip - Well I can’t say that I had envisioned myself talking about a PageRank Patent… FROM YAHOO!…. at least not anytime soon. The last time I looked at a PageRank filing (last PR update filing link) it was from you know who, not Yahoo… But it would seem that’s exactly what we have on the menu today;
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I have nothing against password protected content or subscriber only, but it shouldn't really be submitted to social sites.
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Yeah I got the same message.
doh... modrewrite mucked it sorry ... fixed now. Thanks for the heads up on that. I am generally logged into the site and hadn't noticed. Cheers
Thanks, David.
There are some very intriguing aspects of this patent application. The section on "The Web Garbage Collection Utility" is one of them, and an interesting way to think about the Web, and how an algorithm can be used to focus upon the fresh and the relevant.
Interesting to see user data used in this manner.
Sometimes with this patent stuff I get the feeling what they are trying to attempt is not to create something totally unique, but to just throw enough stuff in to allow them to use something (Google) previously had a patent for.
Even though there are tons of material already written about the original and modified PageRank patents, external sources have no idea what is really going on unless they know the dampening factor and how it is being applied to hanging pages or sites with specific authority.
As an example I hate when PDFs appear in the SERP, and they are almost always a dead end for a spider, yet on .gov sites and .edu they seem to appear a lot more frequently than html equivalents. One of these days I am going to have to delve into the linking structure and backlinks of some of these sites in more detail
@ Bill – I always find those gems fun. I remember you suggesting a glossary of UPM related terms… I would also like to start a collection of ‘ funny things I read in search Patents ‘ – there is always a few comments that make me kind of think twice, that was certainly one of them ( as was the casual nature of the data collection systems).
@ Andy – I really had wondered about this one aloud over the weekend to a few folks as far as being some type of blocking manoeuvre. Either way the continued interest by search folks into human engagement signals is most telling for me these days…. Oh and be cool… forget dampening, it’s ‘teleporting’ now… much more fun :0)
I think that might be a good idea. I'll be keeping my eyes open for those now. Maybe we can work on a compilation together.