Prior art?
Posted Jul 24, 2008 9:34 UTC (Thu) by
ayeomans (subscriber, #1848)
Parent article:
The Death of Google's Patents (Patently-O)
I'd claim that a patent I wrote while working at IBM "Method and system for weighting the search results of a database search engine" covers the claims and pre-dates the Google Page Rank patent. Of course, patent lawyers might make a nice income disputing this, especially as my GB patent was filed before the Google US patent which in turn was filed before the US version of my patent.
Not that Google's fortunes depend on PageRank. Their business model was the truly clever invention.
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