2 ½ Years of insight and what we can learn

I thought it would be interesting to have a look at the patents that the folks over at Google have had awarded over he last few years. Can we see a pattern? Does it speak to the future in any way? We shall see.

Recently I wrote about how Google might get beyond links. As an interesting follow up, I thought it would be useful to see just where they may be headed. It would be ever so interesting to do that same for the last 5-6 years, but that was something I really didn't have the time to dig into. Maybe some day.

As with all things, we don't want to get too excited by the adventure. Patents are merely concepts filed and protected over the years. Some are older, others more recent, I just wanted to do it as it would be interesting. I am sharing it, because well, it is always fun to think out loud.

And last but most certainly not least, we have the search patents awards from the first half of 2010. We will be following this up tomorrow with a post looking at the last three years of search patent awards to Google. The goal is to look at the history and see what, if any, patterns emerge from it all. Be sure to check back tomorrow for that one.

Next up (first post was Yahoo patents) is the round up of search patents of interest from the folks at Microsoft. These, as you might imagine, take on new importance since we've likely seen the last of Yahoo as far as search is concerned. Now that we're down to only two engines of note, the Microsoft (aka Bing) stuff should garner more interest than in the past. Let the games begin!

Over the course of three posts I am going to round-up the various patent awards (of interest) from the first half of 2010. This is a habit I've had since 2008 and it is a nice way for me to track things for future reference. While it's not exactly entertaining, I hope you bookmark and make use of them in the future.