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More interesting than anything Microsoft is doing here is Google's answer to it. If Microsoft caught Yahoo doing this, they'd bury them in lawyers. Google is
by dfranke 16y ago
More interesting than anything Microsoft is doing here is Google's answer to it. If Microsoft caught Yahoo doing this, they'd bury them in lawyers. Google is confident enough to just go public and take the PR win.
- recoiledsnake 16y agoI guess they gave up the idea of suing because they were unlikely to win. Even if Bing was directly scraping Google's results from Bing's servers, it's iffy because robots.txt is not something that's enforceable, and listings of things are not copyrightable. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural