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The Most Innovative US Search Engines
There are several methods to estimate the level of innovation in the search engine market. We have picked a method that is verifiable in an objective way: the number of issued patents.
We searched the US Patent & Trademark Office for patents that have been issued to search engine companies in 2003. Some of the companies have been issued many more patents than listed below (e.g. Microsoft) but we tried to include only those patents that involve search technologies.
Here are the most innovate US search engines in 2003:
| Rank |
Company name |
Number of
search patents |
| 1 |
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA |
11
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| 2 |
Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA |
4
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| 3 |
Yahoo! Inc., Santa Clara, CA |
2
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| 4 |
AltaVista Company, Palo Alto, CA |
1
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| 4 |
Inktomi Corporation, Foster City, CA |
1
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| 4 |
Overture Services, Inc., Pasadena, CA |
1
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| 4 |
Lycos, Inc., Waltham, MA |
1
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In detail, these are the issued patents:
| Company |
Patent no. |
Title |
| AltaVista |
6,598,051 |
Web page connectivity server |
| Google |
6,526,440 |
Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity |
| Google |
6,529,903 |
Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query
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| Google |
6,615,209 |
Detecting query-specific duplicate documents
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| Google |
6,658,423 |
Detecting duplicate and near-duplicate files
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| Inktomi |
6,564,208 |
Delivering non-default items in association with search results
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| Lycos |
6,640,218 |
Estimating the usefulness of an item in a collection of information
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| Microsoft |
6,513,031 |
System for improving search area selection
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| Microsoft |
6,519,587 |
Database query system and method |
| Microsoft |
6,523,021 |
Business directory search engine |
| Microsoft |
6,525,748 |
Method for downloading a sitemap from a server computer to a client computer in a web environment |
| Microsoft |
6,553,372 |
Natural language information retrieval system |
| Microsoft |
6,556,983 |
Methods and apparatus for finding semantic information, such as usage logs, similar to a query using a pattern lattice data space
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| Microsoft |
6,584,480 |
Structured documents in a publishing system
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| Microsoft |
6,594,682 |
Client-side system for scheduling delivery of web content and locally managing the web content
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| Microsoft |
6,601,059 |
Computerized searching tool with spellchecking
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| Microsoft |
6,615,237 |
Automatic searching for data in a network
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| Microsoft |
6,639,610 |
Method and apparatus for assigning URLs to graphical objects in a web page
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| Overture |
6,665,837 |
Method for identifying related pages in a hyperlinked database
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| Yahoo |
6,553,364 |
Information retrieval from hierarchical compound documents
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| Yahoo |
6,631,372 |
Search engine using sales and revenue to weight search results
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If you want, you can read abstracts and full descriptions of these patents at the US Patent & Trademark Office web site. Just go the patent number search page, enter one of the patent numbers above and click the Search button.
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