The last Google's movement is a bit surprising, or not. At least I'm not used to this kind of apparently empty actions. I'm talking about the last patent that Google has got: "his home page look".

Yes, it sounds crazy but they have been fighting for 5 years till now. And what's the meaning of this? Well, it's not clear but I guess they have strong reasons to do it.

It has no much sense, on one hand, to offer tons of books and other stuff for free, just to spread culture and on the other hand, get a patent of such a thing. It is a bad taste action.

Anyway, I'm not currently affected and I don't know the scope of this patent, but I'm sure many sites use similar search forms.