Google's new "Search by Number" feature

[Consul]

It can search patent numbers:

http://www.google.com/help/features.html#number

Just thought you all would like to know.

 

[Gus]

kind of scary

 

[Consul]

It is a little scary, isn't it?

It also looks damn useful. To be honest, I have yet to have a reason to try it. At least now, when you're handed a tracking number with no name of a shipper, you can go look it up. (Believe it or not, that has happened to me a couple of times.)