Baron Briefs

A new Google patent application surfaced this month with the title ‘Agent rank’:

The techniques include receiving multiple content items from a corpus of content items; receiving digital signatures each made by one of multiple agents, each digital signature associating one of the agents with one or more of the content items; and assigning a score to a first agent of the multiple agents, wherein the score is based upon the content items associated with the first agent by the digital signatures. 

It’s their next generation ranking technology for organizing web content and is entirely unrelated to RealtyBaron’s AgentRank™. However, I can hear myself in the not too distant future: “No, not that Agent rank…”.