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Baidu Launches Patent Search Service


Stays several steps ahead of Google

With its habit of throwing out random upgrades, Google's always demonstrated a certain ability to surprise us.  Now its Chinese competitor, Baidu, has achieved the same effect by launching a patent search service.

Baidu's edge on Google has often been attributed to its deeper understanding of Chinese culture, and, if we're to hit upon one less esoteric characteristic, its MP3 search engine.  A patent search service just didn't appear to be in the cards.  But it is nevertheless a good idea.Baidu Launches Patent Search Service

Lynn Qu, who covered the development, points out that Google already offers patent search services in the U.S., so this may have been a matter of Baidu beating it to the punch.

In another piece, Wang Hongjiang states, "Statistics from the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) showed that patent applications accepted by SIPO reached one million after 15 years.  It took 50 months for the figure to reach two million, and only 27 months for three million."  So maybe Baidu was just responding to a market demand.

Either way, it'll be interesting to see what effect this release has on search shares in China, and if Google makes any response in the near future.

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News Tags: Technology, Google, China, Baidu
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Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest eBusiness news.

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I read your article and I'd

I read your article and I'd like to say that your article is very interesting. My name is Bill Morgan and my web page is here

Some nice Patent searching

There's an awfully nice piece of patent searching detective work at this Google Answers site:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=450081
Fnding a patent by date

The researcher tracks down an old patent with a minimum of information.  I thought folks would appreciate being able to check it out.

David

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