Google search on patent reform

At about 10pm on Nov. 6, 680 hits for +"patent reform" +2795.

The first hit for smalltimes.com is the first entry on page 2 (#11 overall) and there is another hit for the same article as the second entry on page 5.

ArentFox has one hit on page 2 and one on page 3. IPBiz (continuations) has a hit on page 3. IPBiz (litigation) appears on page 6. "Imagine" appears on page 16.

There are a number of changes. Among them:
Amc.gov (with Lemley testimony) makes an appearance on page 4. gphaonline appears on page 7. Dunescle appears on page 8.
Page 11 has a hit for:
The Patent Reform Act of 2005 (HR 2795), which was the subject of House hearings this month, "will eliminate legal gamesmanship from the current system that ...
www.the-scientist.com/2005/9/26/40/1
which cannot be accessed without a subscription.

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On google's PageRank, there is a white paper "PageRank Uncovered" by Chris Ridings.

As a general matter, ranking which relies on citation (linking) suffers many of the same defects as citation analysis. In the context of patent citation analysis, I have discussed many of these problems in Intellectual Property Today as early as in 1996 and 1997.

However, the instability of the results on +"patent reform" +2795 suggest more than a problem of citation.