NAR Changes Its Mind: Google Is Not A Scraper Site
Nov 18, 2009 at 2:17pm ET by Matt McGee
Backtracking on a controversial decision earlier this year, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has adopted a new policy that allows real estate professionals to have their sites -- including home listings that belong to others -- indexed by search engines.
The controversy reached a peak this year when the NAR agreed with a local decision in Indianapolis that said real estate agents couldn't let Google and other search engines index the property listings on their sites if those listings belonged to other brokers/agents. In March, the Indianapolis board sent a letter to some agents [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Legal: Crawling & Indexing
Twitter Not Giving Access To Private Tweets
Oct 20, 2009 at 3:44pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Is Twitter allowing search engines access to protected tweets or not? Not, Twitter tells me, though the company probably needs to do a bit more to prevent this type of confusion in the future.
The LA Times reported yesterday about a "Twitter hole" that it believed allowed Google special access to protected tweets, tweets made from Twitter accounts where owners have deliberately chosen not to have their tweets be made public.
Not so, said TechCrunch. The so-called protected tweets that the LA Times was finding in Google looked to be those made from before particular account holder [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Legal: Crawling & Indexing, Legal: Privacy, Top News, Twitter
Yahoo Wins In Lawsuit Over Search Descriptions
Sep 9, 2009 at 12:20pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Eric Goldman updated us on a case where Yahoo was sued for showing spam and porn pages for a search on a person's name. Beverly Stayart was upset that when you searched for her name on Yahoo, Yahoo returned some results that were not to her liking. So she sued Yahoo but the court wouldn't have it.
Goldman explained that the court rejected her suit on three different levels. She sued Yahoo for Lanham Act false endorsement and it was denied by the court, as expected. The reason it was rejected? Goldman sums it up as follows:
The court denies Various' 230 defense because its associatio [...]
Filed in: Legal: Crawling & Indexing, Legal: General, Yahoo: Legal
US Justice Dept. Formally Confirms Google Books Inquiry
Jul 3, 2009 at 8:34am ET by Greg Sterling
It's not really a surprise or even news that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed yesterday it was formally investigating the terms of the Google Book Search settlement. This was known as far back as April and essentially confirmed last month by various publications reporting that formal requests (called "civil investigative demands”) had been issued to book publishers by the DOJ.
What happened yesterday was that the DOJ provided procedural notification to the court that the US is exploring the potential anti-trust dimensions of the Google settlement. The so-called "fairness heari [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Book Search, Google: Critics, Google: Legal, Legal: Copyright, Legal: Crawling & Indexing, Top News
Website Guilty Over Google’s Automated Snippet
Jun 2, 2009 at 9:46am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Register reports a Dutch court has ruled against a Dutch web site, where the web site was sued over the automated snippet used in Google for a keyword phrase.
When someone searched for [Zwartepoorte] and [bankrupt], Google showed Miljoenhuizen.nl and the snippet in the Google search results for Miljoenhuizen.nl was:
Complete name: Zwartepoorte Specialiteit: BMW...This company has been declared bankrupt, it has been acquired by the motordealer I have worked for Boat Rialto...
What is the issue? Well, Zwartepoorte did not go bankrupt and was upset when the Google snippet showed th [...]
Filed in: Google: Legal, Google: Web Search, Legal: Crawling & Indexing, Top News
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