tedster - 7:02 pm on Apr 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

The phrase-based indexing patents [webmasterworld.com] are not light reading, and they certainly don't submit to simple "do this, don't do that" rules. Nevertheless, the appearance of 5 patents on the topic in the past year or so certainly piques my curiosity.

I noticed that these patents talk about the infrastructure used to carry out these steps - and about installing the logic they represent in firmware or even in hardware. So aren't we seeing signs of some infrastructure changes? The "breaking" of the site: operator, the limiting of various search results to under 1,000 with the earlier appearance of "omitted results" links, and possibly even the growth of the Supplemental Index?