Indexing with Phrases
I see that Yahoo! has just been awarded a patent for a system that indexes one or more items of content by extracting one or more items of text that are then tokenized into one or more concepts.
In short, and cutting through all the techno-speak Yahoo! has found a way to index sites based on phrases that it might find on the pages contained within those sites. That’s something that Google has been doing for quite some time and they have a similar patent dating back to 2006
Ranking for phrases as well as keywords is something that we’ve been working with for quite some time and we seem to be achieving some very positive results for our clients. It’s good to see that another level of ranking pages has been added to another search engine.