well, maybe not, but they certainly are well on their way to becoming the repository of all human knowledge. in addition to indexing the entire web, usenet, and every book ever printed, they have now taken it upon themselves to do something that the government should have done a long time ago and completely failed: index patents.
that's right: now you cnn ignore all those ads from companies that offer to help you find out if your invention - or your wonderful addition to an existing invention -has already been invented in exchange for great big piles of your money.
(at last! now we can find out if our idea for a time machine based on photonic crystals and butterflies.)
