). The post, titled "Why Google Might Be Going to $0," outlines a series of patents that can be traced back to the 1990s which deal with monetizing the search business. The patents were granted to a friend of Altucher's and became the basis for search engine Lycos. The friend, Ken Lang, has recently bought these patents back from Lycos and started a company with them called I/P Engine. Two weeks ago, I/P Engine was merged with a public company called Vringo (NASDAQ:

), which subsequently sued Google on the basis that they were infringing on these patents and YHOO received hundreds of millions of dollars. If Google was infringing on the patents that were owned by YHOO and had been granted to Overture, then the thinking is that they are infringing on the search monetization patents which were not granted to Overture because they had already been patented by Lycos. To make a long story short, these patents are now owned by a company called Vringo, and they are suing Google for a ton of money. Altucher seems to think that they have a case and that Google will settle. In any event, this revelation has caused shares of VRNG to skyrocket on Monday. At last check, the stock was up 28% to $2.11 on very heavy volume. Around 6.3 million VRNG shares have already traded on the session, versus a 3-month daily average of around 800,000. The company is tiny, with a market cap of just $29.39 million, but this could be an interesting catalyst. Investors who are interested in finding out more about what is happening with Vringo should take the time to read Altucher's