Will Google Start Giving People Social Media Influencer Scores?
A patent granted to Google this week tells us about social media influencer scores developed at Google that sound very much like the scores at Klout. In the references section of the patent, Klout is referred to a couple of times as well, with a link to the Wikipedia Page about Klout, and the Klout […]
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Google Introduces a Social Where Next Suggestion Patent
Google was granted a patent this week on offering recommendations for places to go for members of social groups. A social group, such as a meetup group that may get together for social events, may use the internet to communicate and interact, and look to for recommendations on where to go next. The patent from […]
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Move over Google Author Rank, Make way for Google Authoritative Rank
An authoritative user is a user of one or more computer-implemented services (e.g., a social networking service) that has been determined to be authoritative (e.g., an expert) on one or more topics that can be associated with one or more queries This quote comes from a patent that was granted on Tuesday at the USPTO … Continue reading Move over Google Author Rank, Make way for Google Authoritative Rank →
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How Google may Rank Users in Streams
A couple of years ago, Google published a patent that described how the search engine migh rank user generated content in something like Google Plus. I wrote about that in the post, How Google Might Rank User Generated Web Content in Google + and Other Social Networks. The patent described in that post seemed like … Continue reading How Google may Rank Users in Streams →
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What Ranking Signal is Better, HTTPS or FOAF markup, when Searcher and Searched Author are Connected?
Recently, Google announced that they would be ranking pages higher in search results when those pages use a secure protocol of https. The Google Webmaster Central blog told us so through Google Webmaster Trends Analysts Zineb Ait Bahajji and Gary Illyes, in HTTPS as a ranking signal. The use of https doesn’t necessarily make a […]
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Has Google Decided that you are Authoritative for a Query?
At Google and Bing, both search engines have been experimenting with relevance and search. Both have shown profile photographs of people whom you may be connected to at places such as Google+ (for Google) and at Facebook (For Bing) in search results that include them. Both may have changed rankings for those pages as well. […]
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Are You Experienced? Google Patents Social Experience Cards
Google published a patent application this week that details the user card interface Google is using for applications such as Google Now. The “invention” described in the patent enables people to share the things they want to experience, or experiences that they have gone through. The patent filing is a detailed walkthrough of how a […]
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Google Plus as Tomorrow’s Social Ebay?
Will Google Plus morph into a social version of eBay, where people can post things for sale, write reviews of their belongings and show them off to their circles?
A few days ago, the Google File System Blog reported upon a new application from Google, which it referred to by the name Google Mine (as […]
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Google Patent Granted on Fresh Related Search Suggestions
When you search at Google, in addition to search results, Google often returns a set of search suggestions that might be related to your query. Last month, I wrote about how some of those suggested query refinements might be created follow a method inv…
Google’s Agent Rank / Author Rank Patent Filing
I originally wrote the following article 6 years ago, and it was published on Search Engine Land on February 9th, 2007. At the time, I wasn’t sure if we would ever see Google find a way to meld together ranking signals from PageRank and Information Retrieval with relevance signals from authors and publishers and commentators […]
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Google’s Query-Based Circles Patent
Are Google’s query-based social circles the answer to Facebook’s Graph Search?
Not too long ago, Facebook launched its Graph Search, which enables people to search for things like “My Friends who live in San Francisco,” and My Friends who like Surfing,’ and “Places my Friends like.”
Imagine if Google Plus allowed you to perform […]
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Google’s Explores a User Activity Media Feed
How active is Google Plus? How active do you want it to be? One of the criticisms of the site is that its a ghost town, where nothing ever goes on. I can’t say that’s been my experience, but I can see how people can make those claims.
Would you like to see an activity […]
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