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> they were lifting content from the article wholesale and embedding it into search results How is this not straight up copyright infringement? Or have the sit
by tpxl 6y ago
> they were lifting content from the article wholesale and embedding it into search results
How is this not straight up copyright infringement? Or have the sites agreed to it and are now just being whiny babies?
- dontblink 6y agoThe latter. It's ridiculous. I wish Google had not caved.
- wutbrodo 6y agoThe sites always had an opt-out of being scraped, via robots.txt. Google made a special-case change for French news sites where they stopped showing snippets, and just showed URLs (still opt-outable via robots.txt). The complaint was just a pretext to force Google to pay protection money against the spirit of the law, as if France is some failed-state thug-government like Libya or something.