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Go.com switches to Google, Disney to sell off Infoseek
Disney/Go/whatever-they-are-called-this-week has had inquiries about the search technology and patents left over from when they acquired Infoseek. According to the article, the last time the Infoseek spider did an index crawl was over two years ago. So while the search technology is useless, there's probably something in the patents that Infoseek holds that might interest some parties, if only for the sole purpose of avoiding future litigation. Full Story