Hello everyone.
Someone told me links were allowed only after 50 posts.
How come nobody pointed that out to iamthatjoseph ?
Not that anyone would mind a meaningful link..

-Jags

The difference was that iamthatjoseph did not use url tags. So the SE's will se the link as just text.

Are you saying one has to have 50 posts to put in their signature link, or that one has to have 50 posts to link some sites to click on?

if the sites are your own that you are putting links to, then the 50 post rule applies generally. If the sites are authority sites that are not your own, then the mods dont generally care.

Didn't have time to read it but will later.

thanks for the links mel.

Interesting links indeed.

I finally did get to read through the entire thing over a month after I initially ran across it and it was very informative. Thanks Mel.

Thanks mel, alot usefull info there!

What would be good is if there was a list of patents and by the list an indicator to identify if the patent has gone live into the Search Engine.

Thank you

thanks, that was really useful for an seo newbie like me:)

Thanks a lot

Some great info there! thanks for sharing the papers!

I am glad that there are those who find this information useful - might even entice me to expand the section a bit.

Hel Mel... I am always in when it comes to G patents ( I have a smaller collection of YaH/MSN as well)...

I used to collect the lot, but have recently tuck to search related stuff and some of the user personalization stuff as well... barely just finished going through that mass that cam out a while back there...

Anyways, just thought I'd mention it .. love the stuff... :0)

Thanks Mel,

Very useful stuff, going to take them on board

Glad you are all enjoying this stuff, although much of it is a bit old.

Hiya... here's a recent-ish patent application by Google:

Agent Rank Patent Application

Article on some possible implications of Agent Rank to be covered on my weblog soon...

Thanks for the invitations guys. I'll bu sure to take them up when I am in the vicinity.

thanks for sharing it

Is it just me or are these links no longer available?

Ok, why are these posts a sticky??!?

Surely a 'beginners guide' or checklist would be better??!? Credit where credits due, search engine patents are important but surely...SEO forum it's not a mainstream topic?

Because when this thread was started two years ago it was very important.. And it still is from time to time as more patents are filed and / or discovered..

Fair enough 2 years ago. IMO not a sticky now - surely should something to attract beginners / your average browser??!?

How about we poll/vote for it

G'day Mel,

I can see this post is from a while back, but I am getting an internal error when I attempt to view these pages. Are the pages still operating, have they moved or are they now just defunct??

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Dee.

They appear defunct.. That's why I unstickied it a while back.. But someone restickied and put it back up..

Lots of stickie..

It's very usefull for me, THX!

Sorry about that Steve, but the website was down thanks to the efforts of my webhosts and is just now getting back in shape.

For those that care about technical search stuff... and more specifically Patents - I posted a chat I had with Bill (Slawski) about taking them all with a grain of salt

The Magic Bullet