Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Microsoft patents the "search engine"

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/search-engine-seo-bing,11462.html#xtor=RSS-181

"Microsoft has received a patent that covers a search engine platform that is based on a "bag-of-words" and "essential pages" ranking system to make searches more efficient."

I'm no expert, but this sounds pretty similar (although not identical) to another very popular search engine.




1 comment:

  1. This is epic. Period.

    When I showed this to my friend, my friend said (after a minute of laughing), 'Who the heck are these people in patent office that grant these patents? A 80-year-old former judge who never seen a computer?'
    I find that sums up my feelings pretty well.

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