● 12.14.06
●● We Finally Have a Google Category
Posted in Google, IBM, Intellectual Monopoly, Patents, Search at 1:32 pm by Shane Coyle
I am still working on Stafford Masie’s talk at the CITI conference, I hope to have that fully transcribed perhaps later tonight and then there is a lot to discuss, believe me. If you haven’t grabbed the audio and had a listen yourself, it’s worth an hour (Links to OGG and MP3 in this story).
In the meantime, it is an unwritten rule, no blog can go for a full month without running a Google story. So, just in under the deadline…
●●●● Google Patent Search
Google has a new feature, in Beta (what else?), called Google Patent Search. I have honestly been playing with it for much of a day now, not getting much writing done as a result. It is a fascinating tool, complete with drawings and all, very interesting and could have some use in the effort to address "legitimate questions about patent quality".
↺ "legitimate questions about patent quality"
●●●● IBM, Yahoo! go After Google
IBM and Yahoo! are teaming up to undercut Google in the enterprise, with a software solution that may put real pressure on Google’s Mini.
↺ undercut Google in the enterprise
↺ real pressure on Google’s Mini
Google currently charges $9,000 for a specialized search appliance – a piece of hardware called Google Mini – that can index up to 300,000 documents. The IBM-Yahoo offering undermines the market viability of the Google box in its current form, or at least at its current price, and also poses a threat to the efforts of corporate search specialists like Autonomy to expand into the small-business market.
It also provides another small bit of evidence that, in an age of cheap computing, hardware wants to be software and software wants to be free.
Isn’t that a great way to put it?
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