Within moments after the online tech-news portals began publishing the news that Google had inaugurated an online patent search tool, Briana emailed me with the news and I started searching. The first thing I noticed was that my boss now thinks I am a genius! I come up with wierdly detaied solutions to technical and mechanical problems, find hard to source parts and anwser arcane science and physics questions with my use of google, wikipedia, and the internet generally. Now I can add drawings and measurements from the last two centuries of innovative advancement to my catagories of known genius. Sweet!

It is very entertaining to peruse the ages of patents presently parked on the google service and I would bet it will be very useful for many as well.