Google Patents Browser Highlight All Button

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:12AM from the wish-i-thought-of-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has picked up another patent on a technology that you might think basic to the web: the highlight all button for searches in browsers. The patent will backdate to 1999 and presents an interesting problem for such software as the Firefox browser and FeedDemon RSS reader. And, in an interesting twist, Microsoft uses a similar mechanism in Windows Explorer. But Microsoft itself said that browser technology can't be separated from the operating system. Does that mean the company owes a royalty to Google for all those copies of Windows?"

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Re:Seriously by SpaceLifeForm · 2010-12-14 06:36 · Score: 4, Funny

That should be easy. They are all 'Hightlighted'.

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Re:Microsoft by Scootin159 · 2010-12-14 07:35 · Score: 3, Funny

But Google is patenting them in YELLOW, Microsoft did it in BLUE. Clearly not the same thing.