How does that work in the real world - do google simply not care, or it's "fair ...

rocqua · on June 1, 2019

The patent is only for web search, so other applications dont infringe the patent.

bbrb · on June 1, 2019

First sentence of the abstract of the patent:

"A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database."

acct1771 · on June 1, 2019

They'd only care if money gained - PR lost == profit.