Google Patents

Are you serious? During my small break Google released another tool? Well, they did. Google Patents is, well, a patent search. The results are clear, well layed out and just plain easy to read.

Does this mean that sites like Free Patents Online are no longer needed? Thats the problem with setting up a site around the collection and evaluation of any type of data, someday Google will provide the interface to the data. If you don't get it, Google wants all data, they want to control and have access to anything data.

Link:
http://www.google.com/patents

Also, check out the Big Google List