By: What makes you happy ? » More on Google

What makes you happy ? » More on Google — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:15:24 +0000

[...] Remember a few days ago I had a pop at Google because they were permitting someone to steal my content ? ( Google steals ) and I then followed that up by banning Google from all areas of my site except the WordPress help area ( Removing Google ), well, I read (through Feeddemon) an article on Joi Ito’s blog which also mentions Google. The NYTimes is reporting on the increasing amount of lawsuits which face the big G, with the article focusing on ad revenue. It IS good that companies are starting to realise that Google (and the others) are blindly taking whatever their bots get their hands on and they are then not caring what they do with what is in effect not even their property. Let’s say you take a picture, add a © to it (not that you need to do that) and put it on your site. If I come along, copy it and place it on my site you can action against me. Yet Google, by it’s very nature gives me access to more pictures and more choice, regardless of the legal status of an image. Go read the Google procedure on what to do if someone steals your content and sticks it on blogger – it is convoluted and designed purely to protect them from the inevitable furore. I probably sound like I’m whinging, but unless companies hammer through some form of protection, it’s bloggers like us ( and those with some ISP space for a gallery) who will find our images and our work in places we never meant it to be. Most people reading this will be savvy enough about the net, but do people new to this really understand that google can and will copy that image of the family around the world when all they wanted to do was show a distant relative ? Aren’t the search engines at some level guilty of at least not being straight ? And you just know that Google will decide that some existing tag will be used to demarcate intellectual property don’t you ? They won’t help at all. And yes, I am perfectly aware of the new Yahoo engine – http://search.yahoo.com/cc – and as a source of guilt / lawsuit / full copyright free work it’s unreliable. RootMacManX.com » Blogroll Dive: 3/28/05 Ã‚Â¤ Read (192) [...]

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MacManX — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:34:59 +0000

So that why Bloglines stopped picking up you’re feed. ^_- That’s ok, it’s time for me to grow up and use a real feed reader.

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Saying goodbye to search engines - Fully Independent — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:17:01 +0000

[...] dependent”> Styles: [m] [s] [c] Saying goodbye to search engines Mark recently decided to exclude his blog from being indexed by search engines a [...]

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Fully Independent — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Phu wrote this @ 6:17 pm Mark recently decided to exclude his blog from being indexed by search engines and the arguments he puts forward have got me thinking about whether or not I should contemplate doing something similar. For me however, it

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