Google Joins Patent Stupidity

If you didn't know already know corporations have been trying to patent everything these days since the US Patent Office seems to let just about anything through now. Now Google is joining the fray by trying to patent ads in RSS feeds. The problem is someone else thought of the idea and used it first. But big corporations have the money to get the process pushed through. Read on.

Google Patenting Ads in Syndicated Feeds?: "

Apparently Google has filed for a patent in 'Incorporating targeted ads into information in a syndicated, e.g., RSS, presentation format in an automated manner.'

Uh Oh. TechDirt reports on this disturbing idea. After all, many folks have been doing this for some time...

Patent here.

(Via John Battelle's Searchblog.)