I see that Amazon still has no shame in the patent arena. Having (finally) had the "one click" patent tossed, they've been awarded a patent for this:

Search engine system supporting inclusion of unformatted search string after domain name portion of URL

I have a question for the three people who are listed as the *cough* inventors *cough* - Andrew Jassy, Udi Manber, and Jonathan Leblang (and the moron of a patent examiner who let this through): do you feel any shame at all for having your names associated with a clearly bogus patent? Here, let me show you the term I have in mind for this "invention": obvious.

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