Your morning reboot never lands in the flower bed.
- Google announces a new patent search. Using the full text of the U.S. patent corpus, Google Patent Search allows you to find interesting patents. Similar to Google Book Search, Patent Search allows you to scroll through pages and zoom in on text and illustrations. Print and save features are said to be in the works.
- The internet is in a tizzy this morning about John McCain's proposed internet legislation. The legislation, aimed at catching child pornographers, would make any site with user registration, liable for the all the content on the site. In addition, webmasters would be required to “report all illegal images or videos posted by their users or face fines up to $300,000.” That includes blogs with comments. Ouch.
- In addition to launching a patent search engine, Google was awarded a patent yesterday for the design of the Google search page. Google's patent is a design patent covering the layout and visual look, rather than the function.
- Bill Gates met with some bloggers who represent “leaders in various aspects of the web community” to answer questions. There were far too many softballs questions, but Steve Rubel has a nice summary of the session.
- Computer manufacturer Fujitsu has announced a 300 gigabyte notebook SATA hard drive. The new drive utilizes perpendicular recording and should be on sale in February of 2007.
