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Amazon's Bezos Wants Web Advertising Patent

Posted by Hemos on from the dear-lord dept.

theodp writes "Just published today by the USPTO--Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' patent application for adding advertisements to web pages. Sure would be ironic if those 50,000 online banner impressions on oreillynet.com Amazon receives as a Platinum Sponsor of the upcoming O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference turn out to constitute patent infringement." Someone *has* to have prior art on this - GEnie/Prodigy/BBSes embedding ads for memberships.

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  1. Boycott by n1ywb · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That's just the last straw. I will not buy from Amazon again.

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    -73, de n1ywb
    www.n1ywb.com