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Google don't object to meta search engines (e.g. Dogpile) aggregating their results with those of other search engines. Google are objecting to Bing seemingly
by mooism2 16y ago
Google don't object to meta search engines (e.g. Dogpile) aggregating their results with those of other search engines.
Google are objecting to Bing seemingly passing off Google results as Bing's own (and not including their ads, no doubt).
It's clearly legitimate for Bing to index a Google results page if it follows a link to it (assuming absence of robots.txt etc) and visa versa.
Does it matter that Bing obtained the Google results via a search from a human not affiliated with Bing?
Does it matter that Google blocks crawlers from accessing its search results, using robots.txt?
Does it matter that Google's result pages don't include the noindex instruction?
Tbh, if I was Google I'd mark my results as noindex and see whether Bing respected that.
- va_coder 16y agoThat's why it's interesting. You say Google adds value. Other's don't think so. Why can't I add value to Google's content and present it in my own way?
- mooism2 16y agoI didn't say that Google adds value. Are you talking about Google Search, Google News, or another of their activities as "adding value" or not? Please don't put words into my mouth.
- va_coder 16y agoI'm talking about Google taking pictures of my house, snippets of books i've written or or other people's web pages with copies of articles i've written and displaying them without my permission. They seem to think that's ok because they "added value". Well now people are adding value to Google's products and presenting them in a new way. This opens up a can of worms for Google.
- ariwilson 16y ago"fair use" is a well-established practice for all of those things except (possibly) search results