Inverse searches and User Annotations - Yahoo! - patents
United States Patent Application: 0050216454: "Yahoo Inverse search systems and methods United States Patent Application: 0050216454"Inverse searches and User Annotations - Yahoo! - Search Engine Optimization: New patent applications from Yahoo! cover Inverse searches and User Annotations meaning being able to enter a URL, and find out information about the site, collected over time including which other sites link to it, other peoples opinions, and more
Abstracts:
"Inverse search systems and methods operate on identifiers of content items in a corpus such as the World Wide Web In an inverse search, the user submits a query that includes an identifier of a target content item in the corpus and receives information (metadata) about the target content item being returned to the user. Many types of metadata can be returned, including ratings or other metadata related to the target content item obtained from users, popularity data specific to the target content item, information about previously submitted forward search queries that led to the target content item being identified as a hit, and metadata extracted from the target content item. "
The second is touted as a sort of bookmark manager but might be a way to collect some of the above data:
Yahoo United States Patent Application: 0050216457: "Systems and methods for collecting user annotations "
"Computer systems and methods allow users to annotate content items found in a corpus such as the World Wide Web. Annotations, which can include any descriptive and/or evaluative metadata related to a document, are collected from a user and stored in association with that user. Users are able to annotate and view their annotations for any document they encounter while interacting with the corpus, including hits returned in a search of the corpus. Users are also able to search their annotations or to limit searches to documents they have annotated. Metadata from annotations can also be aggregated across users and aggregated metadata applied in generating search results.
Neither increase Yahoo!'s reach of pages to return, but look at, collect, and share, additional information about pages already indexed.
posted by Jen @ 7:45 AM
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