Google’s PageRank algorithm could become obsolete very soon with Google losing the exclusive patent to the system some time this year.

The PageRank technology was created by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin while still attending Stanford University, which actually owns the patent to PageRank. Google, however, has the exclusive licensing rights to it until 2011 and come 2017 the patent will expire completely.

This would explain why Google is concentrating so heavily on introducing new features like the search engine Caffeine and instant search results page. But will this make people forget that small green bar on the top of a web page?

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