Google Patents Its Next Billion-Dollar Business (insert "Like" button here)
 

Google wants to reinvent the "like" button, and there may something in it for you if you play along.

In an intriguing patent application filed by the search giant two summers ago -- and unearthed by SEO by the Sea after it was published last week -- Google is hoping to land rights to an ad-centric form of the "like" button made popular by Facebook.

Deep in the description, Big G details how it can create a win-win-win situation by providing financial incentives for active social networking users to serve up advertiser testimonials.

Read all about it here:
http://www.fool.com/investing/genera...-business.aspx

:Oh crap...

Interesting read.

Any idea when this may be coming?

I'm going to patent the don't like button.

Now you're talking:thumbsup Like :pimp

I'm patenting the fuck off button

Google's gonna rule the world :-)

I wouldn't be surprised if down the line in the future they were a section of the government :2 cents:

this is biz