The Google PSE as a Context Aggregator
October 6, 2010
I may be one of the few people outside of the Googleplex who pays much attention to Ramanathan Guha. I know that none of my neighbors in Harrod’s Creek pays much attention to world outside of University of Kentucky football, the fall machine gun shoot, and squirrel stew.
If you want to keep an eye on the Google and its nifty programmable search engine, you may want to read US20100250513, “Aggregating Context Data for Programmable Search Engines.” That plural is, in my opinion, important. Here’s the official abstract:
Search results are generated using aggregated context data from two or more contexts. When two or more programmable search engines relate to a similar topic, context data associated with the programmable search engines are aggregated. The context is then applied to a query in order to present, in an integrated manner, relevant search results that make use of context intelligence from more than one programmable search engine.
I want to let you know that I realize patent applications may not be much more than the outputs of some idle engineers and attorneys. In fact, the systems and methods may not exist or even work in the real world. Nevertheless, the programmable search engine strikes me as a particularly interest innovation. Work on it has been documented in the open source literature for several years.
Stephen E Arnold, October 6, 2010
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