Deep Linking
Date: 2003-01-23 Source: Free Pint
What can we deduce from the body of case law that exists? Perhaps the best that we can say is that the law is uncertain. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
PageRank IS an Opinion?
Date: 2003-01-23 Source: Search Engine Optimization Support Forums
I read on the Search King sites that the courts believe that PageRank is an opinion (but it looks as though this may yet be argued). Obviously this is cause for me to take another look at what I've looked at before... [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Zot Continued...
Date: 2003-01-10 Source: Search Engine Optimization Support Forums
It would appear to me that, from the very beginnings of Google, PageRank was intended to be an objective measure and not an opinion. But now, with legal proceedings under way it becomes their "opinion" instead of an objective measure which relates to the collective opinion of everyone. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Confesses?
Date: 2003-01-06 Source: Search Engine Guide
Bob Massa has re-ignited discussions of the SearchKing - Google lawsuit by making available documents that report to include Google's response to the lawsuit - for a fee. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Filtering Of French and German Web Sites Revealed
Date: 2002-11-04 Source: SearchEngineWatch.com
Last month, a Harvard Law School study brought to light that fact Google does not include certain web sites in the French and German versions of its search engines, in particular neo-Nazi or white supremacy sites that have content that might be deemed illegal to publish in France and Germany. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Report: Sites Missing From Google
Date: 2002-10-25 Source: Yahoo! News
"Search engines are an incredible tool for people to locate information on the Web," Sullivan said. "If you pull a Web site out of a search engine, you are in some degree censoring, in some degree making it inaccessible to some people." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google excluding controversial sites
Date: 2002-10-24 Source: ZDNet UK
Because Google is a company and not a government agency, it has the right in general to delete listings from its service or alter the way they appear. Edelman, of Harvard's Berkman Center, suggests that Google find a way to alert users that information is missing from their search results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Engines and Legal Issues
Date: 2002-10-23 Source: SearchDay
What do Playboy and pagejacking, tarot readings and taxes all have in common? They were the subjects of ground-breaking court cases that set legal precedents for acceptable practices on the web. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Newsbooster's "Deep Links" Could Create Falloutpop
Date: 2002-10-21 Source: Yahoo! Finance
Even the most popular of search engines, Google, may be endangered. Last month, Google launched its free "Google News" service, which relies on precisely the same principle that got Newsbooster and others hauled into court. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Oklahoma City Internet Company Files Lawsuit Against Google
Date: 2002-10-18 Source: SearchKing
Bob Massa, president of SearchKing., Inc. and PR Ad Network, filed a lawsuit today against Google on the grounds the organization arbitrarily and purposefully devalued his companies' and his customers' web sites, causing his business to suffer financially. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google’s Compromising Position
Date: 2002-10-16 Source: Wired
Google isn’t just popular, it’s beloved. But its halo has been tarnished by the company’s acceptance of the 'safe harbor' offered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
