Google has filed four new patents last month. just wondering what effect will that have in our SEO. have a look at this http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...&S1=20070094254&OS=20070094254&RS=20070094254 Any ideas?
Great post! Yes, google is ranking the document based on the history of it's indexing. The document that was indexed first would be more favorable to Google then the identical document that was submitted later.
I always new that! It's good to pay upfront for a domain if you are serious player! Certain signals may be used to distinguish between illegitimate and legitimate domains. For example, domains can be renewed up to a period of 10 years. Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year. Therefore, the date when a domain expires in the future can be used as a factor in predicting the legitimacy of a domain and, thus, the documents associated therewith.
Search engine 125 may obtain history data associated with the identified documents (act 420). As described above, the history data may take different forms. For example, the history data may include data relating to document inception dates; document content updates/changes; query analysis; link-based criteria; anchor text; traffic; user behavior; domain-related information; ranking history; user maintained/generated data (e.g., bookmarks and/or favorites); unique words, bigrams, and phrases in anchor text; linkage of independent peers; and/or document topics. Search engine 125 may obtain one, or a combination, of these kinds of history data.
Did they just "file" for the patents, or "get" the patents? From what I read about patents, it has to be something original not culturally established already. When I read that description, I realized that what they describe, could potentially exist, if a exam or test can be called a "document". Most high school, certification, and college exam tests are scored, and the score is often a rank based on association and comparison with at least one other, or many other documents - hence "the curve". So if Google was not issued a patent for this yet - it will be interesting to see if its just an attempt. Basically one more way to advertise and get people to watch them even if they don't really do anything.
That's interesting to see Matt Cutts' name on there. Anyway, it was indeed granted - at the end of April.
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Fairly detailed, and I see my question is answered that its merely an application. Hopefully all the preparatory thinking by people isn't wasted on Google becoming denied due to a pre-existence of what they are after.
BS. That is true and I can prove it with my own experiments. I had a website that was indexed as the first website on such topic and now its still ranked N:1 even after the fact that is no longer updated and there are quite a few "better quality" websites on that term. Simply the fact that it was the first one made her authority for that key phrase and now its ranking N:1 ... Cheers, Venetsian.
I can prove your "experiments" are bunk my friend. Actually im getting tired of proving that because your document was first doesnt mean squat.