Last week, Google was granted a number of patents exploring different aspects of how documents on the Web might be ranked in part based upon topics identified for those documents and the expertise and/or authority of authors involved in the creation of the documents. The process also describes how Google might use different methods to [...]

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I've written about Google Bombs in the past, and how a bio page featuring President George Bush ranked highly on a search for "Miserable Failure" as a result of a Google Bomb, in a post from 2011 titled How a Search Engine Might Fight Googlebombing.

In a post from earlier today, Nemek Nowaczyk wrote a [...]

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The great thing about HTML is that it's so flexible and offers so many ways to do things. The worst thing about HTML is that it's so flexible and offers so many ways to do things. I've looked at a lot of websites and I still see people doing things new ways.

An issue that's [...]

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Google was granted a patent this week that describes how web sites might be given quality ratings, based upon a model that looks at human ratings for a sample set of sites, and web site signals from those sites.

The patent tells us that the advantage of such an approach would be to:

Provide [...]

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On May 1st, Google's Head of Webspam Matt Cutts published a video in his series of Google Webmaster Help videos, answering the question, "What's the latest SEO misconception that you would like to put to rest?"

For some reason, Matt decided to focus upon patents, with a video about people possibly placing too much faith [...]

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A transformation was triggered at Google with their announcement of the Knowledge Graph in the Official Google Blog post, Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings. That transformation was one less concerned with matching keywords, and more concerned with matching concepts, understanding entities, and bringing knowledge about entities to searchers in knowledge panels next to [...]

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Google acquired the company Wavii for a little more than $ 30 Million in April. There was some speculation that Wavii was an effort to match Yahoo's purchase of Summly, which summarizes news from the Web.

A Wavii app did do just that - acquired and summarized news from the Web. When Wavii [...]

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One of the more interesting discussions about Google Glass I've seen recently was in a forum where one of the participants was describing his own homemade version of Google Glass, which he named "Flass" (if someone at Google happens to be reading this, you should send him a pair of Google Glass, just because.) What [...]

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