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It took Google a decade to decide this site was violating the Terms of Service. Routebuilder does one narrow thing, it's not like they've creeped into Google's
by jahlove 11y ago
It took Google a decade to decide this site was violating the Terms of Service. Routebuilder does one narrow thing, it's not like they've creeped into Google's territory over the years. Something's fishy -- someone on slashdot suggested that it could be because of google's new fitness trackers (http://fit.google.com http://fit.google.com) that they're flushing out any sites at all similar. If that's the case, then sites like routebuilder should be grandfathered into the TOS.
- LoSboccacc 11y agoI would call that business as usual, more than fishy - those megacorp (MS, Apple, Google) have a long track of killing competitors before entering their space if at all possible, even if that means acquiring the whole business to close it down.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoA violation is a violation, period. Yeah maybe it sucks but it violates their terms, what do you expect? It's not going to be grandfathered in. No one does that because now you have exceptions to your terms of service. Likely it was a violation back in 2006 as well in which case there would obviously be no exceptions granted anyway. It's not like Google had the website sitting in a queue to be checked for violations and it took a decade to get to it. They likely hadn't looked at it at all, didn't run an audit on it etc. Google is a big company, is it really that unreasonable that it may have taken a decade before finding the violation?