Yesterday, we focused on a small selection of recently awarded search related patents to Amazon.com, Google, and Microsoft.

Today, a look at a few new search related patent applications that were published on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008.

Providing rating information for an event based on user feedback
Assignee: PC Tools Technology Pty Limited
20080005761

Non-Repetitive Web Searching
Assignee: Bell South
20080005070

User interface for mobile devices
Assignee: NA
20080005668

System for Automatically Generating Queries
Asignee: Xerox
20080005651

Searching users in heterogeneous instant messaging services
Assignee: NA
20080005252

Presentation Of Structured Search Results
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005118

Scenario-Based Search
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005079

Message Mining To Enhance Ranking Of Documents For Retrieval
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005108

Providing ad serving entity attribution and/or solicitation messages for call-on-select listings, such as for calls placed via call-on-select free listings
Assignee: NA
20080005268

Visual And Multi-Dimensional Search
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005105

Localized Marketing
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005104

Method And System For Finding The Focus Of A Document
Assignee: NA
20080005094

Intelligently Guiding Search Based On User Dialog
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005075

See Also: Google Patent Imagines Robots Indexing The Grocery Aisle (via Information Week)

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