If you’re only going to bookmark one post this year, make it this one. Bill Slawski of Key Relevance has put together a comprehensive list of all granted patents granted to Google at the USPTO databases.

There are 169 granted patents in all, with 10 in there for Exaflop. A little more than one third focus primarily upon search indexing algorithms, and almost two thirds were developed in-house rather than acquired.

Advertising Patents (15)
Design Patents (11)
Duplicate Content Patents (4)
Email and Messaging Patents (6)
Event Modeling Patents (3)
Game Patents (1)
Hardware Patents (10)
Image and Video Patents (14)
Large File Space Indexing Patents (8)
Medical Patents (1)
Modeling and Mapping Patents (11)
Multiple Database Indexing (3)
Phrase-Based Indexing Patents (3)
Radio Patents (7)
Search Indexing Patents (48)
Security Patents (3)
Social Networking (1)
Software Patents (1)
Voice Search Patents (2)
Voting Patents (1)
Wireless and Mobile Patents (6)
Total (159)

Although there is no guarantee that these factors are currently implimented at Google, they are a factual source of information and can point to future updates or even just areas which Google are interested in. Bill “Patent King” Slawski regularly breaks down these patents into bite-sized chunks over at his blog, so keep an eye on his site.

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