July 23, 2004

If you've always wondered which companies are doing the most R&D; in the field of search engines, you might find this information useful.

Search engine with natural language-based robust parsing for user query and relevance feedback learning.
Assignee: Microsoft

Method and system of ranking and clustering for document indexing and retrieval.
Assignee: SAIC

Method for promoting contextual information to display pages containing hyperlinks.
Assignee: Microsoft

Method and system for updating a search engine.
Assigneee: Micron

Hyper video: information retrieval using text from multimedia.
Assignee: Verizon

Method and apparatus for creating and displaying user specific and site specific guidance and navigation information.
Assignee: IBM

Systems and methods for structured vocabulary search and classification.
Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation

High volume targeting of advertisements to user of online service.
Assignee: NetZero

Extended functionality for an inverse inference engine based web search.
Assignee: Insightful Corporation

Techniques for finding related hyperlinked documents using link-based analysis.
Assignee: Google

Arrangement of information for display into a continuum ranging from closely related to distantly related to a reference piece of information.
Assignee: IBM

System and method for topic-based document analysis for information filtering.
Assignee: Satyam Computer Services Limited of Mayfair Centre

User Query Generate Search Results That Rank Set Of Servers Where Ranking Is Based On Comparing Content On Each Server With User Query, Frequency At Which Content On Each Server Is Altered Using Web Crawler In A Search Engine.
Assignee: Xerox

Method and system for creating improved search queries.
Assignee: NA

Flexible keyword searching.
Assignee: Microsoft

System and method for content retrieval.
Assignee: Microsoft

Recently Published Search-Related Patent Applications

Source: Gary Price,
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