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Yahoo is going to squish this like a bug

Yahoo is going to squish this like a bug

Posted Jul 10, 2004 16:07 UTC (Sat) by Xman (guest, #10620)
Parent article: Europatent preview: Godado patents search engines

Yahoo, which has a vested interest in keeping it's own search engine up and running, owns AltaVista, and with that, a whole host of patents and prior art on search engines. I would not be surprised if they filed a "friend of the court" brief that pretty much scuttled this one before it became something significant.


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