????意外驚喜：

????8. 谷歌

????專利數量：2566項

????代表性專利：“通過采用排名轉換函數改變文件排名”

????國家：美國

????《財富》雜志最初計劃僅介紹前七家公司，但如果漏掉今年最大的贏家之一——谷歌，那將是我們的失職。谷歌今年首次進入榜單前十名。該公司今年獲得的專利較之前一年增加了38%（以電子與數字數據處理類為主），兩年前才進入50家專利大戶排行。（另外，亞馬遜今年首次進入排行榜，名列第50名）。谷歌如此大幅度的進步令卡迪都深感意外。他說道，榜單幾乎每年都保持穩定，“因此，這樣的變化令人驚嘆不已”。谷歌的這項專利涉及一種算法，用于確定一個文件的多重排名，并為兩個文件形成過渡性排名。該項技術的目的是阻止某些人利用所謂排名修改垃圾郵件的手段操控谷歌的搜索結果。我們看到谷歌成功“修改了”它在商業專利數據庫專利排行榜中的排名，而且效果很好。（財富中文網）

????譯者：劉進龍/汪皓

????審校：任文科

????BONUS:

????8. Google

????Patents earned: 2,566

????Representative patent: "Changing a Rank of a Document by Applying a Rank Transition Function"

????Country: United States

????Although Fortune intended to cap this list at seven companies, we would be remiss not to include one of the year's biggest winners—Google, which debuted for the first time in the top 10. The company, which was awarded 38% more patents this year than the year prior (most of them in the electrical and digital data processing—a.k.a. computers—category), entered the top 50 list only two years ago. (For the curious, Amazon snuck onto the top 50 list this year for the first time in the ultimate spot.) Google's ascendency from out of seemingly nowhere surprises Cady."It was a stunning move," he says—especially on a list that stays mostly stagnant from year to year. Aptly, Google's highlighted patent involves an algorithm that determines multiple rankings for a document, and creates a transitional ranking between the two. The purpose is to hamper people who manipulate Google's search results with so-called rank-modifying spamming. Here we see Google modifying its own ranking on the IFI Claims patent list, to great effect.