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Google's patent for identifying notifying and rewarding trendsetters (google.com)
3 points by v1vek 3204 days ago
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This is Google's quest to identify people who are early users who of content which ends up going viral.

Coverage by cb insight : https://www.cbinsights.com/research/google-microsoft-influen...

They also refer to Microsoft patent to detect, classify, and scoring experts on specific topics based on their online activity.