News Quotes About Google 2003

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This page contains some news quotes about Google for year 2003.

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Google Patents and Patent Applications

Detecting duplicate and near-duplicate files (6,658,423)
December 2, 2003
"Improved duplicate and near-duplicate detection techniques may assign
a number of fingerprints to a given document by (i) extracting parts
from the document, (ii) assigning the extracted parts to one or more
of a predetermined number of lists, and (iii) generating a fingerprint
from each of the populated lists. Two documents may be considered to
be near-duplicates if any one of their fingerprints match."
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,658,423.WKU.&OS=PN/6,658,423&RS=PN/6,658,423

Detecting query-specific duplicate documents (6,615,209)
September 2, 2003
"An improved duplicate detection technique that uses query-relevant
information to limit the portion(s) of documents to be compared for
similarity is described. Before comparing two documents for
similarity, the content of these documents may be condensed based on
the query. In one embodiment, query-relevant information or text (also
referred to as "snippets") is extracted from the documents and only
the extracted snippets, rather than the entire documents, are compared
for purposes of determining similarity."
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,615,209.WKU.&OS=PN/6,615,209&RS=PN/6,615,209

Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search
results in response to an ambiguous search query (6,529,903)
March 4, 2003
"A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to
receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one
implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is
translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same manner
as which the user's input is ambiguated. The user's ambiguous search
query is compared to this ambiguated index, and the corresponding
documents are provided to the user as search results."
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,529,903.WKU.&OS=PN/6,529,903&RS=PN/6,529,903

Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local
inter-connectivity (6,526,440)
February 25, 2003
"A search engine for searching a corpus improves the relevancy of the
results by refining a standard relevancy score based on the
interconnectivity of the initially returned set of documents. The
search engine obtains an initial set of relevant documents by matching
a user's search terms to an index of a corpus. A re-ranking component
in the search engine then refines the initially returned document
rankings so that documents that are frequently cited in the initial
set of relevant documents are preferred over documents that are less
frequently cited within the initial set."
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,526,440.WKU.&OS=PN/6,526,440&RS=PN/6,526,440

Google Fan Logos

More Google: Fan Logos
(December 25, 2003)
http://www.google.com/customlogos.html

Google Book Search

Google Introduces Book Searches
December 17, 2003
"Google has launched an experimental program that indexes excerpts of popular books"
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3290351

Google Print:

http://services.google.com/print/info

Example:

http://print.google.com/print/doc?isbn=0385476876

Travel Conditions

Google Web Search Features
(December 11, 2003)
" See delays and weather conditions at a particular airport. -- type
the airport's three letter code followed by the word "airport." "
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#travel

Example:

http://www.google.com/search?q=sfo+airport

Search By Number

Google Web Search Features
(December 11, 2003)
"Use Google to access package tracking information, US patents, and a
variety of online databases."
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#number

Examples:

FedEx tracking numbers
http://www.google.com/search?q=fedex+999999999999

Patent numbers
http://www.google.com/search?q=patent+5123123

FAA airplane registration numbers
http://www.google.com/search?q=n199ua

FCC equipment IDs
http://www.google.com/search?q=fcc+B4Z-34009-PIR

Google Filter

Google Dance Syndrome Strikes Again
December 1, 2003
" Specifically, Google Watch's Daniel Brandt discovered that including
a made-up word as part of your search may cause Google to show
radically different results. Since his original post at
WebmasterWorld.com, hundreds if not thousands of site owners have
tried this test. Based on their reports, the "filter test," as it has
become known, seems to show how Google previously had ranked things.

Here's an example of the filter test in action and why it works.

Search for laptop rentals. You'll get thousands of matches, telling
you that Google knows of plenty of web pages that contain both of
those words on them.

Search for laptop rentals dhdhdhdhdh. You'll get no matches, telling
you that Google knows of no web pages that contain all three words. We
already know from step 1 that there are plenty of pages that contain
the words laptop and rentals. So, it's really dhdhdhdhdh that doesn't
exist on any of these pages.

Search for laptop rentals -dhdhdhdhdh. This should bring back exactly
the same results as the search for laptop rentals. That's because we
are asking for all pages that contain both laptop and rentals on them
(which we know exist from step 1) but commanding Google to exclude any
pages that also contain the word dhdhdhdhdh with the -dhdhdhdhdh part
of our query. Since we know from step 2 that there are no pages with
laptop and rentals on them that also contain the word dhdhdhdhdh, we
should get the same results as step 1. Instead we get much different
listings.

Why does this happen? One popular theory is that Google is using a new
"filter" to prescreen results for "money words," searches where it
hopes to sell its AdWords paid listings. You can understand the
popularity of this theory by looking at the before and after for that
search on laptop rentals. Before, you get mostly businesses that
appear to specialize in laptop rentals. After, these are all gone --
replaced by mostly university web sites that talk about laptop rental
programs for students.

Ah ha! Well, more like hmmm. The complication is that there are plenty
of exceptions. There are some people who DID run ads before the change
who still found they lost "free" rankings. There are also people who
maintained their top free rankings after the change despite the fact
that they never bought ads. Moreover, the changes have had positive
and negative impacts on all types of sites. "Big" sites did not
necessarily trump over "mom and pops." "
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3114531

Google Florida Update

Florida Google Dance Resources
December 5, 2003
"This page summarizes articles from Search Engine Watch and resources
from elsewhere that pertain to major changes to Google's search
algorithm that happened in November and December 2003. "Florida" is
the nickname that's been given to this particular wave of changes
known as the Google Dance."
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3285661

Google Dance 2003

Google Dance 2003
(November 29, 2003)
http://www.google.com/googledance2003/

Google Deskbar

Google Deskbar
(November 6, 2003)
"Search using Google, even when your browser isn't running"
"Preview search results in a small inset window that closes automatically"
http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/index.html

Google Labs: Search by Location

Search by Location
(September 22, 2003)
http://labs.google.com/location

Google Definitions

Google Web Search Features
(September 20, 2003)
"To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word
"define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined. If
Google has seen a definition for the word or phrase on the Web, it
will retrieve that information and display it at the top of your
search results."
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#definitions

Example:

http://www.google.com/search?q=define:World+Wide+Web

Google Toolbar 2.0

Google Toolbar
(August 13, 2003)
Google Toolbar 2.0 has new options: Popup Blocker, AutoFill, BlogThis,
Country Search.
http://toolbar.google.com/

Google Calculator

Google Calculator
(August 13, 2003)
"To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the
expression you'd like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter
key or click the Google Search button. The calculator can evaluate
mathematical expressions involving basic arithmetic (5+2*2 or 2^20),
more complicated math (sine(30 degrees) or e^(i pi)+1), units of
measure and conversions (100 miles in kilometers or 160 pounds * 4000
feet in Calories), and physical constants (1 a.u./c or G*mass of
earth/radius of earth^2). You can also experiment with other numbering
systems, including hexadecimal and binary."
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator

Google Synonym Search

Advanced Search Made Easy
(August 7, 2003)
"You may want to search not only for a particular keyword, but also
for its synonyms. Indicate a search for both by placing the tilde sign
("~") immediately in front of the keyword."
http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

Google News Alerts

Google News Alerts (BETA)
(August 5, 2003)
"Google News Alerts are sent by email when news articles appear online
that match the topics you specify."
http://www.google.com/newsalerts

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