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Google Notebook Could Influence Rankings

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Google has filed 3 new patents for its Excerpt 1:

"The web notebook-based ranker 404 uses the content of web notebooks to determine ranking. Web notebook content can include titles or headings in the web notebooks, snippets that have been clipped into the web notebooks, user-supplied annotations or user-supplied free-form text, metadata associated with web notebooks (e.g., metadata that identifies a corresponding search request, a time/date stamp, or other information related to a snippet, annotation, heading, title, etc.), and other information stored in the web notebooks."

From patent filing to execution can be a long time, but it's a take on the socialization of Google's search results that seems a logical fit. It'll be interesting to see how Google prevents the spamming and gaming of Google Notebook, that's inherent in similar social media services that impact SEO.

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