Worse Patent Ever

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

I found this on ./, but the patent granted to Amazon tells it all:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,287,042.PN.&OS=PN/7,287,042&RS=PN/7,287,042

or : http://tinyurl.com/2vsvky


1. A method of processing URL request messages from user computing
devices, the method comprising: receiving a URL request from a user
computing device, the URL request specifying a URL that includes a
domain name, followed immediately by a forward slash, followed
immediately by a character string; determining whether the character
string includes a predefined prefix that identifies the URL as a
non-search-request URL, wherein a non-search-request URL is a URL in
which the character string is not a search string for executing a
search; when the character string includes a predefined prefix that
identifies the URL as a non-search-request URL, retrieving content
referenced by the URL, and returning the content to the user computing
device in response to the URL request; and when the character string
does not include a predefined prefix that identifies the URL as a
non-search-request URL, executing a search in which the character
string is used in its entirety as a search string, and returning
results of the search to the user computing device in response to the
URL request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein executing the search comprises using
each term within the character string, other than predefined noise
words, as a keyword.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein executing the search comprises
treating a space within the character string as a search term
separator.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the character
string includes a predefined prefix comprises checking for each of a
plurality of predefined prefixes used to identify non-search-request
URLs.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of retrieving content
referenced by the URL comprises retrieving a static web page
referenced by the URL.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the URL ends with the character string.

7. A web site system that processes at least some URL request messages
from user computing devices according to the method of claim 1.
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