Searching For A Car With A Clean Title? Patented!

If you thought that the Supreme Court's Teleflex decision would have the Patent Office be a little more careful about awarding really obvious patents, apparently you'd be wrong. The EFF is highlighting a patent approved last week by the office. The patent was file by Carfax, and it basically describes the key element of Carfax's business: searching a database of used cars for ones with a clean title. Yes, that very thing is now patented. No, there's nothing even remotely new here. Basically, it's just a typical database search, but one that includes a flag for "clean title." Does this mean that any kind of specialty search is now patentable? With the recent news that location-based searches are patented as well, I imagine lots of other types of searches won't be far behind.