Google's Page Rank algorithm is getting harder to crack by the day It seems like every niche online is getting more competitive and grabbing those key page 1 rankings in Google is getting tougher and more competitive

Information Week has reported that in June of 07 Google filed a patent application, which has just become available, outlining a “method of optical character recognition in digital images.” The application seems to cover both static images as well as video. The ability to do this could radically change a number of existing Google services as well as again change the way the Internet marketing world interacts with images and video.