Archive for December, 2006

Google Patent Search

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

“Now you can search for U.S. Patents” says the official google blog. This is exciting news because the official patent search feature at USPTO.gov is lacking. The navigational interface is clunky, practically to the point of being non-usable. The image display interface is not cross-browser compatible and should really highlight the pages that actually contain [...]

A Lesson in Reputation Management Damage Control

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Clearly, the end of this past week was much busier in one corner of the internet than many realized. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch reported on a Jotspot/Google merger blog post by “Kevin” disappearing under suspect circumstances. Thanks to search engine caching, he republished the original text of the blog which was basically an indictment of [...]