Google Introduces AJAX Patent Search API
Posted by jonathan at 4:14pm EST on 06/12/2008
Awesome! There’s an AJAX Patent Search API tool available. There’s no possibility of there being a downside, right?
Well hold up a second there. Who cares if tools are available if the data is old. Frankly, I don’t care about any magical tool being available unless the content gets updated.
I e-mailed Adam Lasnik about this already and he said he would ping the Patent Search team, but alas, the patent data is still nearly a year old. Still no sign of updated content.
I tried it again this morning, same results, so here’s a recap screenshot.
7 Million Patents via Google Patent Search API
Jun 26th, 2008
[...] Dingman of Google Inside notes that the patent data may not be up-to-date, given a simple search with Google as the search term. We tried an advanced search that restricted [...]