Imagine being able to subscribe to a service where public service agencies, advertisers, and friends may be able to leave you mobile messages when you drive through or arrive at a specific location. Google acquired a series of related patents earlier this month that cover this kind of location-based service, originally filed by [...] Related [...]
The HTML5 standard being developed for the Web introduces a new set of HTML elements. These include elements such as section, header, footer, article, aside, header, and nav. Mark Pilgrim’s online book, Dive into HTML5 gives us a look at the newest version of HTML5, and shows us how these New Semantic Elements might [...] [...]
What steps can a search engine take to give a searcher more information about the credibilty of a page that searcher might be viewing in search results? Is it better to show annotations that might provide a measure of credibility in search results themselves, or in something like a browser toolbar? Might signals that [...] [...]
If you were asked to point out the patent that describes PageRank, and you went searching at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), you might quickly get confused. A little more confusion comes today, with the granting of a new patent on PageRank to Stanford University. I’ve also located the very first PageRank [...] [...]
Recently, many are pointing to Google’s Panda update as one that considers things like how much advertising and where advertisements are located on a web page as indications of the quality of a Web site. Of course, there are likely other factors that the search engine would consider when scoring a site based upon [...] [...]
Use your smartphone camera to take a picture of text in a newspaper, a magazine article, or a book, and if it’s available online you can access it electronically. Take an image of a print advertisement and you may be able to visit an online transaction page to make a secure transaction. Snap [...] Related [...]
Around the beginning of May, 2010, a number of site owners noticed a change in Google rankings for websites that caused many of them to lose traffic. Since the change took place around May 1st, that Google update was referred to by many as the MayDay update. Google’s head of Web Spam, Matt Cutts, [...] [...]
Chances are that when you search for a video on Google or at YouTube, the results that you receive are based upon text about the video rather than the content of the video itself. The search algorithm involved might look at the title of the video, as well as a description and tags entered [...] [...]