AV claim patent on search engines

Old patent could bring fuzz to the SE world.

[Rumbas]

Hi
Just read an article on AV claiming that they own the patent for the search engine concept. CMGI have checked their old patents and claim that all other search engines owe AV money for violation their search engnie patent.

A bit vague..

Source: digitoday
[url=http://www.mediawatch.dk/8.0/naviger.asp?page=vis.asp&art=5356&type=nyheder&b=112&tb=0[/url]Article in danish

[grnidone]

You are correct, Rumbas. There has been much discussion about this very thing.

[webmasterworld.com...]
and
[webmasterworld.com...]

are two that I can think of. I am sure one of the other mods can fill you in on others.

Thanks for the post! We'll dance later.
-G

[Rumbas]

Thanks for clearing that one.

Couldn't imagine though that this news hit Denmark before the rest of the World ;)

AV have their backs to wall?
There's an old saying: when the crib is empty the horses start to bite..