People don't know what they want except sex and money. Ask 50 people you'll get 50 answers. People don't really know what they want until they see it. Whether that is because the thing is cool or whatever. Look at the music industry, they have been pumping out that pop shit for decades and people still buy it. Sorry to be the one to break this to you but, PEOPLE ARE STUPID.

Thats funny, I used to work at IEG also.

Just make one xhtml document with semantic annotations There are plenty of solutions for indexing this information. Also a simple google site: will often suffice for most queries.

Microsoft Employees get a $2500 bonus for every patent. They don't have to write it either, The patent lawyer does.
All you do is describe the idea and give any pertinent documentation and someone else converts it to a patent.

I have a few MS patents under my belt when I worked there.

Norway's economy is on fire, check out http://www.finn.no/finn/job/fulltime/result?JOB_CATEGORY/CATEGORY=5409&areaId=20061 Most of the ads are in Norwegian but the job titles are the same in the US, its just transliterated. Norway is desperate for qualified people right now, nobody can find decent employees, people with your qualifications start at about $100k a year. Maybe more depending on the city in Norway and the Company. Oslo is not the greatest city to live in, but the job market is really good and you can catch a flight to just about anywhere really easily. Stavanger is great city, its actually where I live. Its an oil town so there is lots of foreigners, however its small and its expensive to travel out of Norway from here.