Google Gestation Period
July 7, 2009
I went through my notes about the Guha patent documents. These were published in February 2007. BearStearns published my analysis of these documents in May 2007. I am not sure these are available to the public, but I did describe the Programmable Search Engine invention in my Google Version 2.0 study which came out in September 2007. The Google Squared service and its query “digital camera” replicates the exemplary item in the Guha patent document. Several observations:
- My 2005 assertion that the Google gestation period is about four years. There is a two year ramp period inside the firm during which time the technology is shaped and then, if deemed patentable, submitted to the USPTO and other patent bodies.
- After the patent document is published like the Guha February 2007 PSE patents a two year maturing and deployment process begins.
The appearance of the Google Squared service as a beta marks the Darwinian field testing. The age of semantics is now officially underway. You can read about Google’s methods in my trilogy The Google Legacy (2005), Google Version 2.0 (2007), and Google: The Digital Gutenberg (2009). The 2007 and 2009 studies provide some research data germane to those who want to surf on Google. Yep, that the source of my “wave” analogies and the injunction at the end of my Google talks to “surf on Google”.
What’s next? Wait for my newest monograph on time in search and content. I find it easier to let research and content analysis illuminate the would and could of the GOOG.
Stephen Arnold, June 7, 2009
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