Northeastern University and local startup claim they invented key to Google Searches
(via xconomy) “Northeastern University (my alma mater) and a Waltham, MA, startup called Jarg say the key technology Google uses to conjure up search results was patented by them.” From the article:
According to the Globe account, Northeastern and Jarg, which was co-founded by an NU associate professor, say their technology—a means for parceling up database queries into allotments that can be processed by different computers—was patented back in 1997, a year before Google was even incorporated. They’ve filed a patent infringement suit against the world’s most popular search company to prove it, and they’ve filed it in U.S. District Court in Marshall, TX, where patent plaintiffs win more than three-quarters of the time.
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