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What Can A Google Patent Filed In 2003 Offer Today?

A patent granted to Google this week would enable people to see information about page links by mousing over them. The search engine filed the patent, "Methods and systems for assisted network browsing," in 2003.

Bill Slawski makes no assumption that Google will implement this feature, but looks at numerous options made possible by the patent. Slawski ponders possibilities for use in Google's browser Chrome. He also considers having the ability to see what's behind the links' destination before clicking on it - like ratings, annotations, anchor test, history of use, and summaries or other data points.

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