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Google Patents Search Algorithm

Posted by michael on from the google-this dept.

blastedtokyo writes "Google gets the first web search patent. According to this News.com.com article, Google was able to patent how they crawl and rank web pages. They claim "an improved search engine that refines a document's relevance score based on interconnectivity of the document within a set of relevant documents.""

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  1. Oh no... by dghcasp · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does this mean we have to hate google now? I don't want to go back to Altavista...

  2. Re:..regarding patents. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "A patent is like a baseball bat made out of rubber. When you're competing against other companies - you both get out your set of rubber baseball bats and hand them over to your lawyers who proceed to pummel eachother. "

    Woah! That's WAY better than the current system!

  3. Re:Black/White by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Oh boy it'd be a real leap to accurately stereotype a "general" Slashdotters : Counter IP, anti-Microsoft, pro-Google, anti-DRM, pro-Linux...
    ... refuse to do business with RIAA/MPAA, watch every movie reviewed on Slashdot....
  4. Re:OMG MORE PATENTS!!! by Eloquence · · Score: 3, Funny

    So what you're saying is that software patents might be a good idea because they can be used by a company to defend itself against .. software patents? Uh yeah, makes perfect sense to me ;-)

  5. Re:Not that outrageous by tbmaddux · · Score: 4, Funny
    Compared to other "patent the fork" icon'ed items...
    Holy --! I have been reading Slashdot for, I dunno, a couple years now and I never noticed the meaning of that icon before.

    Seriously.

    I must be almost as dumb as the USPTO.

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    Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?