Google is betwixt and between, waiting at this very moment to see if China wants to get along badly enough that it will accept Google's new approach to Internet filtering. The new set-up has users inside China click a bright blue link (pictured at right) to lead them to the same unrestricted search results available to Google users in Hong Kong. Searching through the main search box pictured serves up filtered results. Will one click make all the difference?

Sure, this week’s Supreme Court decision [PDF] in Bilski v. Kappos was hardly the lightning bolt of judicial clarity hoped for by those with an interest in patent reform -- in particular, those who hoped for a reform of so-called business-method patents and the software patents that piggyback off them.