Overture Sues Google Over Pay-for-Placement Patent

Ana anonymous submitter wrote: "C|Net News is reporting that Overture is suing Google over its AdWords advertising method since it may be infringing upon Patent 6,269,361 'System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine'."

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This is wonderful

[John Penix]

I think we all know for a fact by now that Google is just stealing from other people who have created original ideas. Glad to see what's coming to them has arrived.

Re:Support your arguement, please.

[Neon Spiral Injector]

I know I'm not supposed to feed the trolls...

Google doesn't position a search listing within a search result, they position an add to the side of the search listings.

overture.com FAX # is (626) 685-5601

[doublem]

Attn: Business and Legal Affairs
Overture Services, Inc.
74 North Pasadena Avenue, 3rd Floor
Pasadena, CA 91103
Fax (626) 685-5601

Dear overture.com,

So, you can't do anything innovative or original on your own and don't have enough brainpower in your corporate hierarchy to come up with a strategy that turns a profit.

So you sue.

You pick a company that is making money and sue them on a trumped up, drug addled view of a pathetic patent that would never have been granted if the patent office employed people with an IQ higher than 67.

Or perhaps you're suing them because they won't license your technology and pervert their pure, accurate searches with the crap you spew out.

With this lawsuit, you have guaranteed that I will never use your search engine. Go ahead and change your name all you want, I still won't use you, and the sites that license your "technology" will be similarly be avoided.

I will also do everything within my power to prevent others from doing business with you, including but not limited to writing the firms that appear in your search results and making it clear to them that I will not do business with them either.

Hopefully, with enough action on the part of the consumer, you will recognize the folly of pursuing lawsuits as a business model.