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Google’s Blog Ranking Patent

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:21:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hit and read the whole document, or go directly and check the whole patent application in the related link.
Very interesting issue!

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Google’s Blog Ranking Patent

A patent application from Google for “ranking blog documents,” filed in late 2005, is available now. (I don’t see Google Inc mentioned in the paper, but I know that several of the inventors – like Andriy Bihun, Jason Goldman and Vinod Marur – work at Google.) Google presents a couple of positive and negative quality indicators, and it’s possible these are live today at Google’s Blog Search to weed out spammers – in any case, this gives an interesting insight look into Google’s thinking.

Here are some positive factors for blogs:

The popularity of the blog

The existence of the blog document in blogrolls

A high number of unique subscriptions

Use of tags

Emails or chat transcripts containing the blog URL (I wonder if Google analyzes Gmail or Google Talk content for such uses?)

And here are some negative factors:

New posts being published in short succession, which hints at automation

Duplicate posts in a blog

The use words or phrases that often appear in spam

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Ten Tips for Smarter Google Searches

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:30:27 GMT

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Ten Tips for Smarter Google Searches

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Most people use Google in a very inefficient and often ineffective manner. If all you do is enter a few keywords and click the search button, you're one of those users who don't get as much out of Google as you could. In this article, Google expert Michael Miller shows you how to search smarter — and more effectively.

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Google Top Searches 2006

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:56:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Simple people have voted their persons and their concerns for people of the year 2006.
It is remarkable to see that issues such as cancer, bankruptcy and autism are included in the top 10 of news searches amongst others not so .. serious searches!

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A year’s worth of search speaks to our collective consciousness, and 2006 is no exception. To compile these year-end lists and graphs, we reviewed a variety of the most popular search terms that people typed into Google. Click on all the tabs to learn something new — or confirm that you too reflect the spirit of the times. Except where noted, all of these search terms are global for Google.com.

Google.com - Top Searches in 2006

  1. bebo
  2. myspace
  3. world cup
  4. metacafe
  5. radioblog
  6. wikipedia
  7. video
  8. rebelde
  9. mininova
10. wiki

Google News - Top Searches in 2006

  1. paris hilton
  2. orlando bloom
  3. cancer
  4. podcasting
  5. hurricane katrina
  6. bankruptcy
  7. martina hingis
  8. autism
  9. 2006 nfl draft
10. celebrity big brother 2006

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Great Google Search Tips

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:33:12 GMT

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Google Search Tips 2005

Here are some search syntax basics and advanced tricks for Google.com. You might know most of these, but if you spot a new one, it may come in handy in future searches.

A quote/ phrase search can be written with both quotations ["like this"] as well as a minus in-between words, [like-this].

You can find synonyms of words. E.g. when you search for [house] but you want to find “home” too, search for [~house]. To get to know which synonyms the Google database stores for individual words, simply use the minus operator to exclude synonym after synonym (they will always show as bold in the SERPs, the search engine result pages). Like this: [~house -house -home -housing -floor].

Google has a lesser known “numrange” operator which can be helpful. Using e.g. [2000..2005] (that’s two dots inbetween two numbers) will find 2000, 2001, 2002 and so on until 2005.

Google has some exciting back-end AI to allow you to find just the facts upong entering simple questions or phrases like [when was Einstein born?] or [einstein birthday] (the answer to both of these queries is “Albert Einstein – Date of Birth: 14 March 1879”). This feature was introduced April this year and is called Google Q&A. (See some of the various working Q&A sample queries to get a feeling for what’s possible.)

Sometimes, Google warns you about its results, especially when they might seem like promoting hate sites (of course, only someone misunderstanding how Google works could think it’s them promoting hate sites). Enter [jew], and you will see a Google-sponsored link titled “Offensive Search Results” leading to this explanation.

For some of the more popular “Googlebombed” results, like when you enter [failure] and the first hit is the biography of George W. Bush, Google displays explanatory ads titled “Why these results?”.

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Google’s Blog Ranking Patent

Google’s Blog Ranking Patent

Ten Tips for Smarter Google Searches

Ten Tips for Smarter Google Searches

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Article Description

Google Top Searches 2006

Great Google Search Tips

Google Search Tips 2005