Bill Slawski
Recent Posts by Bill Slawski
New Google Freshness-Based Ranking Patent
Rankings for pages in search results might be boosted or demoted based upon a decision...
Investigating Google RankBrain and Query Term Substitutions
Introducing Google’s RankBrain A Google patent granted in August looks at how google might replace...
Yahoo! Assigns 11 patents to SnapChat
In an assignment dated September 23, 2015, Yahoo! assigned 11 patents to ShapChat, which were...
Ranking Pages at An Apple Search Engine?
More Signs of Search After Applebot Back in May, I wrote the post Here Comes...
How Google May Identify Good Query Suggestions from Overlapping Queries
When someone performs searches for a particular topic, they may use many query terms to...
How Google Might Recommend TV Shows Based upon Web Popularity
A Google patent granted this week explores how Google might recommend TV shows using Web-popularity...
How Google may Create a Reputation Score for People Based Upon User interactions
A Reputation Score as a Ranking Signal? One of the things I was hoping to...
How Google May find Results that Answer Entity Triggering Questions
We learned Google’s name for Answer Box results was Featured Snippets. These Direct Answer results...
How Customized Content Might be Shown in Google Knowledge Panels
A Google patent application published last month describes how the search results returned in response...
New FTC Guidelines on Endorsements in Social Media
When you see a recommendation made on Twitter or Pinterest for a product or a...