Bill Slawski
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With more than 24 years of SEO experience and a Juris Doctor Degree, Bill Slawski is the foremost expert on Google’s patents as related to SEO. Bill is the Editor of SEO by the Sea, a prominent search engine optimization blog, where he is the author of over 1,300 posts.
Bill’s experience includes Fortune 500 brands and some of the largest websites in the world. Bill is a contributing author for Moz, Search Engine Land, and Search Engine Journal. In 2014-2019, he spoke at industry leading conferences about topics including search engine algorithms, universal and blended search, personalization in search, search and social, and duplicate content problems, structured data, and schema
Google Speaker Identification Vectors
What are Speaker Identification Vectors and What Are They Used for? Google was granted a patent in February of this year involving speech recognition systems, and how those could be used to determine or verify the identity of a speaker. The patent tells us about previous attempts at speaker identification, which generally involved determining the […]
Will Google Help Video Creators with Video Optimization?
Will Google Start Offering Video Optimization Suggestions? A patent application originally filed in October of 2013, and published on July 1, 2020, includes a system to identify optimizations for videos and for suggesting those video optimizations to the posters of those videos. The patent presents the problem that it is trying to solve regarding video […]
Where Query Images That Accompany Query Answers Are Selected From?
Query Images may be selected from the same source that a query answer may be extracted from under a new patent from Google. When Google shows an answer to a query that is intended to be an actual answer instead of a set of links to pages that might contain an answer, Google may also […]
Ranking Search Results based on Information Gain Scores
What are Information Gain Scores? A different way of ranking sources of information responsive to search requests is the topic of a patent application from Google. It is about information gain scores. Information gain scores indicate how much more information one source may bring to a person who has seen other sources on the same […]
Word Sense Disambiguation Using Neural Networks
Word Sense Disambiguation Helps Google Understand the Meaning of a Word on a Page About 40% of English words are polysemous. This means that they have more than one meaning. Some words, such as run or set have more than thirty different meanings. Polysemous words can cause difficulty in contexts where the meaning is other […]
A Native Application Vertical Search Engine at Google
Google was granted a patent last week that is about a search engine that can do keyword searches (or find an entity) for an application vertical search engine on mobile devices that can cover such things as: (i) Personal content such as contacts, messages, call history, documents, notes, calendar events, or the like (ii) Application-specific […]
Offensive Content Classification at Google
Sometimes Some Words May Be Offensive or Non-Offensive Based on How They Are Used In some parts of the World, the word “Shag” describes an activity that some people might find offensive. I grew up in a home where we didn’t use that meaning of that word and had shag carpeting in many rooms. It […]
How Google May Answer Better Questions by Rewriting Questions
A task Google has set out to do recently is to respond to answer-seeking queries as I wrote about in the post, What are Good Answers for Queries that Ask Questions? Sometimes a query is best answered by a list of links to documents found on the web (i.e. “best restaurants in NYC.”) and there […]
Google Returning Video Search Results Using Machine Learning?
Problems with Video Search Results An area causing problems for searchers is when they may be looking for a video in response to a query. A Google patent recently granted describes how Google may be responding to queries that surface video search results. The patent tells us that the purpose behind it is “identifying videos […]
Human-Friendly Driving Directions Based Upon Personalized Landmarks
Google keeps information about your Mobile Location History and the places that you visit. It may remember those places and use them as personalized landmarks in the directions that it shows you in the future. It may also boost those places in Maps search results when it shows them to you. Human Friendly Driving Directions […]