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A patent application does not mean that the methods described there will find its way into practice in the search engines. An indication of whether a methodology/technology is so interesting for Google that it could find its way into practice can be obtained by checking whether the patent is pending only in the US or other countries. The claim for a patent priority for other countries must be made 12 months after the first filing.Regardless of whether a patent finds its way into practice, it makes sense to deal with Google patents, as you get an indication of the topics and challenges that product developers at Google and other search engines are dealing with.
This Microsoft patent describes an innovative search query suggestion system that combines knowledge graphs with machine learning to provide contextually relevant query suggestions. The technology presents suggested queries based on read more
The paper evaluates the verifiability of four generative search engines: Bing Chat, NeevaAI, perplexity.ai, and YouChat. The study reveals that these systems often produce fluent and seemingly helpful responses but read more
This Google patent describes a graph processing system that uses neural networks to represent and analyze relationships between nodes in a graph. The system employs a manifold neural network to read more
The patent discusses a method and system for modifying search queries based on discourse context. The method involves determining if a subsequent query belongs to an existing discourse context, then read more
This patent describes a system for enhancing automated assistant responses using large language models (LLMs). The system processes spoken utterances, generates initial responses, and then modifies these responses using LLM read more
The research paper by Google introduces approaches to improve the accuracy of large language models (LLMs) by integrating them with Data Commons, a repository of public statistics. The methods, Retrieval read more
This research paper introduces a comprehensive evaluation framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems called “A Unified Evaluation Process of RAG (Auepora)”. The paper analyzes various evaluation methods, metrics, and benchmarks read more
The Research paper is scheduled to be presented at TheWebConf 2025 conference taking place June 03-05, 2025 in Woodstock, NY. The paper discusses a novel approach to preserving structural and read more
The patent describes a method performed by a server system to generate and display a structured information page associated with an entity. When the server system receives a request from read more
This patent describes a sophisticated multi-stage query processing system and method for handling document searches efficiently. The system processes queries in multiple stages, using different scoring methods at each stage read more
