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Sat Jan-15-05 01:29 AM
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You can PATENT almost anything

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050114_113606.html

Google receives patent for highlighting search results

January 14, 2005 - 11:36 EST

The US Patent and Trademark office granted Google a patent for "systems and methods for highlighting search results". According to the description, the patent covers the interception of web documents, that were retrieved as links in a search query by a user or system. Google then "highlights one or more occurrences of the search term in the intercepted web document."

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Is it me or is this going too far. Next, Microsoft will patent underlining document titles. Sheesh.

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