landmark - 7:59 am on Apr 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

Forgive my ignorance of patent law, but I'm shocked that such a large and vague collection of ideas can be patented: ideas that almost anyone in the industry could have come up with; in fact many ideas that are already commonly accepted or discussed among the SEO community.

Does this mean that other search engines are not going to be allowed to take into account for example the age of a document when computing their results?