Google has released four new document patent applications. All four are on the topic of scoring a document. One is based on scoring documents on query analysis, an other on traffic analysis, an other on link criteria and the last is on age of the document.
- Document Scoring Based on Query Analysis
- Document Scoring Based on Traffic Associated with a Document
- Document Scoring Based on Link-Based Criteria
- Document Scoring Based on Document Inception Date
These four patent applications were released in the past two weeks. Even Matt Cutts is named on one.
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