On 3/29/2010 3:50 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
In sci.space.history Pat wrote:
When found, the title is spelled correctly on the patent pdf
itself, but incorrectly in the patent title description on the
search engine. However it could be a flub on Google's part also, as
you say. In one case I noticed a "B" had been transposed for a "R",
which could happen if they were optically scanned and the software
misidentified a letter.

Do they have a "report errors" link somewhere?

I don't see one, but this is a Beta version. Here's the homepage for it:
http://www.google.com/patents
One interesting thing is the second time I went to it, it was having me
type "read these distorted letters" information in a dialog box before
letting me look at pdfs of the patents. In one case, I had to go through
four of those before the pdf showed up.
It's not doing that anymore, but it did occur to me that a foreign
government (read China) could go into the search engine and use a
automated program to download _all_ of the US patent pdfs for industrial
espionage purposes.
Then they would know about improved methods of making Pot Ash:
http://inventors.about.com/od/weirdm...ent-Grante.htm

Pat