Google patent inventor
Simon Tong is a Principal Engineer at Google working in machine learning. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University in 2001 with a dissertation on active learning, supervised by Daphne Koller. In 2010 he described on the Google Research blog "Seti", a large-scale machine learning classification system widely used inside Google. His more recent publications include work on the GLaM language model and the Gemini 2.5 technical report.
All their Google patents on Google PatentsNavboost re-ranks Google results with click data. We read patent US 8,661,029 line by line: long clicks, short clicks, the last click, and what they mean for your pages.
Patent US 8,407,231 scores a page by how its links appear and disappear over time: a falling rate of new links marks it as stale, while sudden spikes can signal bought links. The full mechanism and what it means for link building.
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