Google Lands First Web Search Patent
from the going-intellectual-property-crazy dept
It seems that Google is going intellectual property crazy. First they start going after trademark infringers and now they've received their first search patent for their relevency system of ranking pages based on how many inbound links they have. I know I'd heard about similar systems before Google was around, so I wonder if there's prior art? It will also be interesting to see how actively Google decides to protect their patents.
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strange
Second of all, Brin and Page (the founders of Google) deserve the credit--they're the ones who made Google and Google's original pagerank algorithm. Why does Krishna Barat get it?
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