Google to lose exclusive rights to PageRank in 2011

[rive]

For those not aware Stanford actually owns the patent to "PageRank", and Google has exclusive licensing rights to it- but only until 2011.

The exclusive licensing rights from Stanford will expire shortly, and with It I think you will see the last of Google's Page Rank. With the advent of Google's new Search Engine (caffeine and Instant Search), I think they are effectively phasing it out.

Form 10-k (2009) filed with United States Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Googl.../2009/F1931284

Page 15:

...In October 2003, we extended our exclusivity period to this patent through 2011, at which point our license will become non-exclusive.

[RickyG]

good info....thanks

[gmsj]

I do not think it's possible something like this

[jorje]

This is not really something to sulk about, I think this is why google actually tries to lower the importance of pagerank, but I don't see any future competition from someone buying a license for pagerank.

What could be, is for someone to grab it and publish the code, this way we could determine how PR is actually calculated thus giving us an edge in seo

[JessicaLeo]

I don't know these things so don't have any answer about it..