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		mbell on Jan 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The USPTO Would Like to Partner with the Software ... You know how it worked ten years ago. Do you really think that has much to do with how it works today?

iskander on Jan 5, 2013 [–]

As of four years ago (last time I had any meaningful contact with search quality people at Google), it was a very convoluted layer cake of diverse signals and carefully tuned heuristics.

codygman on Jan 5, 2013 | [–]

I guess that's what they needed Go (golang) for.

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