Google Patent Ties The Pieces Together
A new patent application filed by Google this week attempts to tie “clipped” (copied&pasted) URLs from both email and IM into an actual ranking algorithm. From the patent description “[a] universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate.”
The patent writes:
“In an increasingly networked world, users frequently use online sources to create and exchange information,” the patent application explains. “E-mail, instant messaging (IM), message boards, Web sites, and blogs are all existing communication technologies through which users can create and distribute content to other users. Frequently, in creating such content, a user may wish to reference other online information sources. For example, a user authoring an e-mail may use a browser to navigate to a Web page that the user would like to reference in the e-mail, copy the link (e.g., the uniform resource locator (URL)) from the browser to a ‘clipboard,’ and then paste the link from the clipboard into the email. In this manner, the user can create an e-mail message that contains links that are accessible by an eventual reader of the e-mail.”
Google has been making efforts to penetrate the college market with its hosted application and email, a high adoption rate among students can further improve the usage of such functions in the future, and bottom line it could all be tied into search results and possible ads serve.
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