Recently, Google was granted a United States Patent for a method of determining the relevance ranking of web pages found as a result of entering search queries. The grant of US Patent 6,529,903 to Google may affect other companies that are in the process of developing technology to search web pages and intelligently rank the results in relation to the queries. For more information: http://news.com.com/2100-1024-986204.html To view the patent, visit: http://makeashorterlink.com/?F25532F93

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