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Recently one of the lyrics sites had a similar complaint that might be the same thing happening in this case (and maybe it was the same issue for Bing's case to
by sidibe 6y ago
Recently one of the lyrics sites had a similar complaint that might be the same thing happening in this case (and maybe it was the same issue for Bing's case too).
If you specify that you don't want Google to take snippets, but a third party ignores the robots.txt or meta tags and has a permissive one of its own Google can just scrape it from there.
A missing detail here is what did the textbox for the fake celebrities' net worth on Google link to?
- jefftk 6y agoPlaying around with real celebrities: * https://www.google.com/search?q=larry+david+net+worth https://www.google.com/search?q=larry+david+net+worth -> featured snippet from Wikipedia, showing an estimate * https://www.google.com/search?q=bill+gates+net+worth https://www.google.com/search?q=bill+gates+net+worth -> database style response, showing answer with no link
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- giarc 6y agoI believe it was Genius that was using rare unicode characters in the lyrics that don't really show up when viewing the page. They were able to see that Google had those same characters in their lyric results and therefore Google was just scraping Genius.
- sidibe 6y agoAh thanks, that's the case. There's definitely some wrongdoing there but it's murky who is responsible since Google actually got the lyrics from LyricFind who stole it from Genius.
- giarc 6y agoIronically this news came out today. https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/court-dismisses-genius-lawsuit-over-lyrics-scraping-by-google/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLnljb21iaW5hdG9yLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD7S1U9BrD-DNynCtYcUzcy0r0V73lepj3yOoPlMwYevzR7WsiRHR8MdhjvDKnjwQi230hCfyLn6SoiTNUB9HMbASZcO18uaJQsRhWuHXCOvu3XMaHfa0GGU3dLK-YOSt5cbe4ERnmvMDMLeD-3fOTh2WkEdV4R8XlaGh1wHVPMy https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/court-dismisses-genius-law...