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If Bing Is Copying Google’s Search Results, Is It Breaking The Law?
- jayzee 16y agoI doubt it since Google is fighting this battle in public instead of getting its lawyers involved. On the other hand: An interesting and possibly relevant legal issue here is how WestLaw's star pagination system was copied by LexisNexis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlaw#Legal_disputes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlaw#Legal_disputes) It would seem that Google's ranking would be similar to WestLaws pagination system and might be protected by copyright.
- ry0ohki 16y agoI don't think ordering of results could be considered copyright, that's more like a method (since Bing presumably still crawls the sites and builds it's own index, with perhaps Google as a ranking factor). Real world consumer product companies copy what the competition is doing every day (it would be like US Airways putting it's interior designers on a Southwest plane), as long as Microsoft isn't using internal Google spies to steal code or something.
- DanLar75 16y agoHow in the world would they be? Scraping web-content is pretty much Google's entire business model. Is 'slightly' hypocritical for them to even speak out on this in my opinion.
- jbri 16y agoGoogle doesn't represent that content as their own, instead they link to the original source. I don't think anyone would be complaining if searching on Bing just redirected to google.com/?q=whatever_you_searched_for