Google Launches Patent Search!

Google just launched a new search engine, Google Patent Search.
With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you. You can view images of original patents online, or save and print them for offline use.
According to the About page, the patent data come from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and there are approximately 7 million patents. You can learn more about this new search engine and how to use advanced search with it on this page, also at Google Blog and Inside Book Search Blog.

Top Web Based Instant Messengers

There was a time when instant messengers were a few hundred KB per client, and there weren’t too many. Today, there are three major chat clients—MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk—and while Google Talk is small enough right now, it’s only a matter of time before it bloats into the 20mb package that the other two are almost competing to reach. If you’re done with all the stupid extras like IMvironments and Winks, and all you want to do is chat, then consider using a web-based messenger that works purely in your web browser, without needing any download or installation.
Let me introduce you all to some of the best web based instant messengers available today on the internet.

1. meebo
2. eBuddy
3. mob.ebuddy.com
4. Fropper
5. ILoveIM
6. Kool IM
7. Messages Sur Le Net 2 Go
8. MessengerFX
9. MSN Web Messenger
10. Yahoo! Web Messenger
11. AIM Express
12. ICQ2Go
13. Google Talk via Gmail