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Google does not Own PageRank

Posted at 9:22am EST on 06/16/2007

After doing a little patent research, the research returned a little information about how the technology buzz of PageRank is actually not owned by Google.

So who owns the technology behind the big Google Search? Stanford University. (Patent #6,285,999)

The patent details show it was filed in 1998 which does seem wrong to me, but the earlier date shows it was registered in 1991.

Quite interesting to me that Google would base their entire search market on a key element that they do not actually own themselves. It may have been conformed into their own patent, but the original idea behind it belongs to Stanford. Bearing in mind that Larry Page did co-author the patent, it still does not belong to Google.

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4 Responses to “Google does not Own PageRank”

  1. Carmelo Lisciotto

    Jun 16th, 2007

    Interesting… Stanford ought to take it back.

    Carmelo Lisciotto

  2. Jonathan Dingman

    Jun 17th, 2007

    Well, Stanford actually owns it…so there’s nothing they need to take back.

  3. Serg

    Jun 18th, 2007

    Hmmm….interesting fact.

  4. zaki

    Jun 22nd, 2007

    Thanks for the head up. Otherwise I will assume forever pagerank is belong to Larry