Gigs Shrugged

I found a pretty neat site tonight. Prior Art Database. It’s like “unpatents”. A company publishes on this site to prevent the technology from being patented in the future by someone else. It’s also a handy corpus of likely-not-patented technology articles. It’s got a staggering number of articles in it.

I’ve made it into a search widget for Firefox 2.0:
Install the priorartdatabase.com Google Search

I had to set the favicon to something, so I just set it to my logo. If I left it default you get Google’s favicon, which kinda sucks because then you don’t know if you are just searching Google or Prior Art.