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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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  2. How many times do I have to say this? by nagora · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Don't buy anything from Amazon.

    TWW

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  3. Re:Wired? by Creep73 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Maybe they should try patenting the process of pantenting everying.