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I kind of agree about presenting Yelp ratings and only giving them the option of that or not being indexed, but you go too far in the other direction. Snippets
by magicalist 12y ago
I kind of agree about presenting Yelp ratings and only giving them the option of that or not being indexed, but you go too far in the other direction.
Snippets in search have long been held to be fair use and, quite honestly, I see the Wikipedia thing as an SEO crank red flag: even beyond the fair use argument, Wikipedia is explicitly licensed to enable that sort of transformative use. Remix culture and all that.
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- rayiner 12y agoConduct that's legal from a copyright point of view can still create an antitrust problem.
- magicalist 12y agoThat's true, but I would love to hear a specific theory on how using data from Wikipedia would create an antitrust problem :)