At the end of 1999, or so, I became acquainted with google.com .
I was impressed with their work, and emailed them a suggestion to the effect that their indexing engine and "Google cached pages" might work even better if they stored MD5 checksums inside their databases.
Time passed... I heard nothing from google.com
And now,
someone is trying to patent a similar, though more sophisticated idea.
Hmmm, I got this idea for "safer merry-go-rounds" this weekend"...
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At the end of 1999, or so, I became acquainted with google.com .
... I heard nothing from google.com
...
I was impressed with their work, and emailed them a suggestion to the effect that their indexing engine and "Google cached pages" might work even better if they stored MD5 checksums inside their databases.
Time passed
And now,
someone is trying to patent a similar, though more sophisticated idea.
Hmmm, I got this idea for "safer merry-go-rounds" this weekend"