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I'd very strongly disagree there. Read the history of Google, and you'll see just how many people they pissed off in scraping the web. Launching snippets risked
by temphn 14y ago
I'd very strongly disagree there. Read the history of Google, and you'll see just how many people they pissed off in scraping the web. Launching snippets risked "copyright infringement" on a massive scale. Google Books: ballsy scanning without permission, opt-outs for individual authors. Google Maps Streetview: ditto. Gmail: ballsy advertising based on machine learning with individual messages.
Talk to anyone there in the days of Early Google. They were all about breaking rules.
- fnordfnordfnord 14y agoThe CFAA, wire fraud statutes could have been applied to Google with the same type of legal-mental gymnastics.
- anigbrowl 14y agoNonsense.
- anigbrowl 14y agoThee's a reason that I qualified my remark by saying 'a search engine built on pagerank.' You'll recall that a lot of other things they did resulted in expensive legal wrangles. Your argument is empty.