Google patents Map reduce “System and method for efficient large-scale data processing”

After filing in 2004, google finally got its patent on “System and method for efficient large-scale data processing”  approved  yesterday.

Gigaom pointed out that if Google really wants to enforce it, it would have to go after many different vendors who are implementing “mapreduce” in some form in their applications and databases.

Google’s intentions of how to use it are not clear, but this is what one of the spokesperson  said.

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