Google selected patents, patent applications and technical writing.

Keeping up with issued and introduced patents, patent applications and technical writing for Google-related technology can help you spot emerging trends and do your best to rank pages in Google organic search listing.

Here is a Google intellectual property portfolio in addition to Yahoo and Microsoft (MSN).

• Accelerating user interfaces by predicting user actions. U.S. Patent Application 20060047804. Marth 2, 2006.
• Systems and methods for spell correction of non-roman characters and words. U.S. Patent Application 20050289463. December 29, 2005.
• Profile based capture component. U.S. Patent Application 20050246588. November 3, 2005.
• Determining ad targeting information and/or ad creative information using past search queries. U.S. Patent Application 20050222901. October 6, 2005, 2005.
• Results based personalization of advertisements in a search engine. U.S. Patent Application 20050222989. October 6, 2005, 2005.
• Systems and methods for translating chinese pinyin to chinese characters. U.S. Patent Application 20050209844. September 22, 2005.
• Methods and apparatus for determining equivalent descriptions for an information need. U.S. Patent 6,941,293. September 6, 2005.
• Embedding advertisements in syndicated content. U.S. Patent Application 20050165615. July 28, 2005.
• Generating hyperlinks and anchor text in HTML and non-HTML documents. U.S. Patent Application 20050149851. July 7, 2005.
• Systems and methods for direct navigation to specific portion of target document. U.S. Patent Application 20050149576. July 7, 2005.
• Systems and methods for improving search quality. U.S. Patent Application 20050149499. July 7, 2005.
• Information retrieval based on historical data. U.S. Patent Application 20050071741. March 31, 2005.
• Methods and systems for improving a search ranking using related queries. U.S. Patent Application 20050060311. March 17, 2005.
• Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query. U.S. Patent 6,865,575. March 8, 2005.
• System and method for providing a user interface with search query broadening. U.S. Patent Application 20050027691. February 3, 2005.
• Content-targeted advertising using collected user behavior data. U.S. Patent Application 20050021397. January 27, 2005.
• Systems and methods for highlighting search results. U.S. Patent 6,839,702. January 4, 2005.
• Systems and methods for searching using queries written in a different character-set and/or language from the target pages. U.S. Patent Application 20040261021. December 23, 2004.
• Method for scoring documents in a linked database. U.S. Patent 6,799,176. September 28, 2004.
• Method for searching media. U.S. Patent Application 20040122811. June 24, 2004.
• Methods and apparatus for displaying and replying to electronic messages. U.S. Patent Application 20040119740. June 24, 2004.
• Techniques for finding related hyperlinked documents using link-based analysis. U.S. Patent 6,754,873. June 22, 2004.
• Serving advertisements based on content. U.S. Patent Application 20040093327. May 13, 2004.
• Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity. U.S. Patent 6,725,259. April 20, 2004.
• Method and apparatus for characterizing documents based on clusters of related words. U.S. Patent Application 20040068697. April 8, 2004.
• Serving advertisements using information associated with e-mail. U.S. Patent Application 20040059712. March 25, 2004.
• Methods and apparatus for serving relevant advertisements. U.S. Patent Application 20040059708. March 25, 2004.
• Information extraction from a database. U.S. Patent 6,678,681. January 13, 2004.
• Detecting duplicate and near-duplicate files. U.S. Patent 6,658,423. December 2, 2003.
• Address geocoding. U.S. Patent 6,934,634. September 22, 2003.
• Detecting query-specific duplicate documents. U.S. Patent 6,615,209. September 2, 2003.
• Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query. U.S. Patent 6,529,903. March 4, 2003.
• Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity. U.S. Patent 6,526,440. February 25, 2003.
• Methods and apparatus for providing search results in response to an ambiguous search query. U.S. Patent Application 20020133481. September 19, 2002.
• Methods and apparatus for employing usage statistics in document retrieval. U.S. Patent Application 20020123988. September 5, 2002.
• Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query. U.S. Patent Application 20020042791. April 11, 2002.
• Method for node ranking in a linked database. U.S. Patent 6,285,999. September 4, 2001.