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Google Patent Search

Dealing with the government's patent Web site is borderline nightmarish. Google's new patent search pulls information from the same database, but offers a cleaner and even more searchable patent browsing experience. Did you really think nobody had patented a squid lure with a longitudinally contiguous core and shank? Think again.

Yahoo Music Video 3 beta launches tomorrow

Yahoo's updated music video service has higher bit rates and some new social recommendation features. The interface has also been streamlined considerably, with tighter side margins; there's now room for a user-configurable queue. Nothing groundbreaking being … Read more