Legal > Legal: Crawling & Indexing
Oct. 15, 2007 at 12:30pm by Eric Ward
Fall Cornucopia Of Linking News
Here we go again... The Associated Press (AP) is suing news aggregation site Moreover and parent company VeriSign, claiming copyright infringement for, among other things, linking to the AP news without permission (here's the complaint in PDF format). In an awesome bit of newsbot irony, you can read all...
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Aug. 31, 2007 at 1:08pm by Danny Sullivan
Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results
Today, Google News will begin offering articles from several major wire services and news agencies hosted on its own site, rather than sending readers away from Google. The move is part of licensing agreements that have been stuck over the past year. Google News is also promising better duplicate story...
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May. 21, 2007 at 10:05am by Danny Sullivan
Google Denies New UK News Search Deal
Google reach deals with news websites from the Sunday Herald reports that Google has reached a deal with several large UK newsgroups to carry content on Google News, but Google tells me no such deals have been agreed....
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May. 3, 2007 at 8:24am by Danny Sullivan
Belgian Papers Back In Google; Begin Using Standards For Blocking
Belgian newspapers that sued Google to be removed from its index are now back in, having agreed to use the commonly-accepted blocking standards that they initially rejected as not being legal. Google and the group representing the papers, Copiepresse, have issued a joint statement. That's below, along with a look...
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Apr. 25, 2007 at 11:18am by Barry Schwartz
Google: Sued Again Over "Bad" Listing
Building Contractor Sues Google for Indexing Consumer Complaint from Wired highlights yet another case where a someone wants to sue Google over how they are listed. Cases like these have lost in the past, but people keep trying. In this case, New Jersey building contractor RSA Homes is upset...
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Apr. 6, 2007 at 11:40am by Chris Sherman
A "New Deal" For Online News & Search Engines?
Investment pundits have been scratching their heads this week over billionaire investor Sam Zell's $8.2-billion purchase of Tribune Corp., publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, and owner of other old-media properties. Newspapers have been bleeding cash and losing both money and eyeballs to online news, job and...
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Apr. 6, 2007 at 9:07am by Danny Sullivan
AFP & Google Settle Over Google News Copyright Case
The most significant copyright case against Google News, that filed by Agence France-Presse back in March 2005, has now ended. Google has signed a licensing agreement with AFP that settles the suit. News from the AFP here. The statement from both companies has the usual spin that this is about...
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Mar. 6, 2007 at 10:11am by Danny Sullivan
Dissecting Microsoft Slams At Google As Copyright Infringer
Last October, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer gave us a taste of how Microsoft was going to position Google as a copyright leech. Today, Microsoft launched a full-out assault on the company. Google deserves some of this, no doubt. But the idea as Microsoft as some altruistic copyright savior deserves some critical...
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Feb. 28, 2007 at 9:23am by Bill Slawski
Are You Putting Web Search Results at Risk with Paid Advertising?
If you bid on keywords for a term or phrase that you rank well for in a search engine, might your organic result be filtered in some instances, when your ad appears on the same page? A newly granted Microsoft patent is the first I recall seeing which discusses such...
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Dec. 19, 2006 at 9:23am by Danny Sullivan
Australian Court Rules Against Linking; Search Engines Don't Need To Panic
Australian court rules against MP3 link site from News.com covers how an Australian court has decided that linking to some content can be illegal, in the right circumstances. In the right circumstances! That part is important. It's easy to read the headline and come away thinking that search engines...
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Dec. 14, 2006 at 8:35am by Barry Schwartz
AOL Video Search Sued By Evel Knievel For Distributing Kanye West's Music Video
Steve Bryant reports that Evel Knievel has sued not only Kanye West for making a music video that allegedly infringes on his likeness but has also sued AOL for helping distribute that video. AOL Video Search had clips of the music video come up for searches on "Evel Knievel." When...
