More patents for Yahoo, Google, IBM

Posted on | December 7, 2006 |

Well for you techie types these might seem like a big deal so here goes

Yahoo abstract: A traffic monitor provides statistics of traffic using an activity input for receiving data related to activity on a server system. Events being monitored are binned by topic or term, where the terms are associated with categories. The categories can be a hierarchy of categories and subcategories, with terms being in one or more categories. The categorized events include page views and search requests and the results might be normalized over a field of events and a result output for outputting results of the normalizer as the statistical analyses of traffic.

Google abstract: A system performs cross-language query translations. The system receives a search query that includes terms in a first language and determines possible translations of the terms of the search query into a second language.

IBM abstract: Disclosed is a system architecture, components and a searching technique for an Unstructured Information Management System (UIMS). The UIMS may be provided as middleware for the effective management and interchange of unstructured information over a wide array of information sources.

Now for the real news - what is going on with Yahoo? Have they finally figured out what a ship does with a broken rudder - runs around aimlessly with no apparent direction. You mean you can’t just try the old shotgun approach and hope something meaningful comes out of it. I will only say what I say to my teenage daughter - stay focused - there is so much potential money coming into the Internet - figure it out. You don’t need to go the Google model but the approach you have is not working. I am not sure how breaking things into 3 different divisions will help either - your thoughts folks!!