Searching for "patent reform" on Google

The number of hits for +"patent reform" +2795 dropped to 673 on October 30 at about 8:30am.

To review the first few pages-->

First page of hits:
thomas.loc.gov (2)
abanet.org
patentlaw.typepad.com (blog entry for June 2005)
publicknowledge.org (2)
govtrack.us
law.com
ipo.org
vcexperts.com

Second page of hits:
promotetheprogress (2)(blog)
smalltimes.com
arentfox.com (law firm entry)
house.gov
townsend.com (2)(law firm entry)
patentbaristas.com (blog)
jonesday.com (law firm entry)
wikipedia.org

Third page of hits:
moneycentral.groups.msn.com
bakerbotts.com (law firm entry)
4ipt.com (2)
ipfrontline.com
releases.usnewswire.com
ipbiz.blogspot.com (blog; entry on continuations)
govtrack.us
blackenterprise.com
ipo.org

Fourth page of hits:
patentlaw.typepad.com (blog, July 05 entry)
fr.com (law firm entry)
boston.bizjournals.com
acenet.edu
nyls.blogs.com
autm.net
gbpatent2.com (law firm entry)
cio.com (citing NJLJ article)
arentfox.com (law firm entry)
smalltimes.com

The entry for IPBiz on Cleere appears on the 6th page of hits.

There is an entry on page 8 for RIPLA which is a link to a pdf document prepared by the IPO. The only "hit" was for the link, not for a substantive paper. At the link, one finds a three page chart which compares certain features among H.R. 2795 (as introduced on June 8, 2005), the substitute H.R. 2795 presented July 26, 2005, and the industry "redline" (Sept. 1, 2005).

From a question of search strategy, this comparison chart might be a more useful piece of information than most of the hits in the earlier pages of the Google search results.

There was a reference to my "Patent Reform 2005: Sound and Fury" paper on page 16, but a link to the actual paper certainly was not in the first 16 pages. In the first 16 pages, there is a lot more fluff about patent reform than substance.