BUT whether or not Google is self-serving, the data they’re generating really is very exciting. It’s completely user generated, time-stamped, and often categorizable by location, home or work environments, and even gender. The data set responds instantly to world events, and (at least for Google) is completely searchable and analyzable. Really, no data set comes close to this from a human interest perspective. Searchology indeed.

Frankly, I am getting a Déjà vu effect while going through the “Google Squared” application because it appears to be very similar in function to my United States patent application which was filed on April 12, 2007 and as publicly disclosed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on October 16, 2008, when the patent application was published.

My patent application is titled as “Method And System For Research Using Computer Based Simultaneous Comparison And Contrasting Of A Multiplicity Of Subjects Having Specific Attributes Within Specific Contexts” bearing Document Number “20080256023” and Inventor name “Nair Satheesh” which may be viewed at http://patft.uspto.gov/ upon Patent Applications: Quick Search.

Google Squared appears to be using at least some if not many of the same methods and systems as set forth by me more than two years ago in my patent application. In fact there are many more methods and systems disclosed in my patent application which I believe will help resolve certain inaccuracies found in current Google Squared application.

I have issued legal notices to Google through my Patent Attorney in the US but Google has not responded yet to any of my notices.

I understand the grumbling about Google – I wonder how much direct contact Google engineers have with real people doing searches (and explaining what they’re looking for), rather than sifting through tons of search data while and assuming they can use the data to read searchers’ minds.