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Again, the lawsuit was over Google News' display of lead paragraphs and other excerpts from articles. It didn't pertain to the general search engine.
by Toady 15y ago
Again, the lawsuit was over Google News' display of lead paragraphs and other excerpts from articles. It didn't pertain to the general search engine.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoThe lawsuit may not have, but the ruling certainly and explicitly does.
- ToadyCensored 15y agoThat's incorrect. The court's ruling specifically pertains to the use of article content in the Google News aggregator and its storage in Google's cache. There is no mention of simply linking to articles in the search engine, nor would there be reason for one since the lawsuit was over the use of copyrighted article excerpts, not hyperlinks. What Google is doing is akin to the punishments Microsoft used to dole out in the 90s, such as increasing Windows OEM licensing fees or threatening to revoke licenses entirely. Google is playing a dangerous game in monopoly-conscious Europe.
- xiaoma 15y agoGoogle uses separate crawlers for its search engine and its news service. Blocking the news service really would have been a trivial edit to their robots.txt file.