Yahoo follows up Personalized PageRank with...

This post is from from my other blog here

It’s all about getting along with your neighbours A while ago the fine folks at Yahoo! had a patent granted relating to Personalized PageRank (/search-engines/algorithm-matters/yahoo-page-rank-and-teleportation-oh-my.html), (or User Sensitive PageRank (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20080010281.PGNR.&OS=DN/20080010281RS=DN/20080010281)). At the time it was not only interesting but just fun from a ‘my PageRank is better than yours’ perspective. Today I ran into another Yahoo! patent that makes mention of said Personalized PageRank and another potential candidate for the lexicon; HarmonyRank. It is sort of like, how well do you play with others ;0)System and method for characterizing a web page using multiple anchor sets of web pages (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20080082481.PGNR.&OS=DN/20080082481RS=DN/20080082481)- filed Oct.2006; Published April 03 2008 “ An improved method for characterizing a web page using multiple anchor sets of web pages. “search masters (http://www.seobythesea.com/), have a look around right? Ok, seems these fellows have ALL also worked on; Anchor-based Proximity Measures (http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amrutaj/work/papers/www2007.pdf) (PDF) – 2007; which discusses...