Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]

Post by teddyh » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 12:16 PM UTC

mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #253

teddyh wrote: post #41

The primary case here made against Google might be questionable behavior from Google, but might not be illegal, since simple numbers like a dollar amount can’t be copyrighted, and AFAIK there is no other legal impediment to Google doing what they did (IANAL). What looks far more inculpatory to me is this, on the last page: […] Because it controls essentially the entire internet, Google has endless levers at its dispo…

A curated database like this can be copyrighted. The author even mentions this in the article, that the net worth numbers are not considered as commodity information like the height of a famous building.

Post by mcintyre1994 » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 2:03 PM UTC

strgcmc wrote: post #203

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #109

> And what about those conjured celebrities I added as a precaution? All five were all scraped right into Google’s search result pages. It provided undeniable proof that after being turned down, Google simply went ahead and stole the entire database of content CNW took eight years and over a million dollars to build. I remember a few years ago Google had a big blog post about how they’d injected some fake search resu…

I worked at Microsoft from 2010-2012, and the crux of the issue there was that, for Microsoft users who had the Bing toolbar installed, the toolbar would track what you were visiting in your browser and use that session/journey information to try and improve the relevancy of Bing results. If a lot of people who searched for "best pancake house" (regardless of what search engine you used) end up visiting ihop.com with…

Post by hyperdimension » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 6:27 PM UTC

renlo wrote: post #185

teddyh wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Taking someone else's copy written content […] (You should read up a bit on this; it’s obvious you have not since you call it “copy written” when the term is “copyright” and a work can therefore be “copyrighted”. The term is about who has the right to copy a given work, and has nothing to do with “writing”.) Copying text someone else has written is indeed copyright infringement (commonly, but technically inaccurate…

NAL and the only information I have is from a 2 credit intellectual property class I took in college, but facts (like dollar amounts) are not copyrightable, but curated collections of facts (like an almanac) are copyrightable. It seems this would fall under the latter category. Also from the LinkedIn - hiQ Labs lawsuit, it seems that unfair business practices are factored in. Google is implementing unfair business pr…

Post by sundarurfriend » Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 3:09 AM UTC

WalterGR wrote: post #233

temp667 wrote: post #231

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Dude - I went to your side. I looked up a random word - it had a 3 word definition with 12 seconds to interaction, at least a second of blocking content, a pageload time of 25 seconds (!! for three words!), 352 requests! 1.5MB page size, and content farm crap filling out the rest of the page. I mean, I'm a user of the web, and I hated sites like this. You score terribly among all major search providers I tried BTW. Y…

I have no idea what you’re talking about. The site has never had any of that. Did you go to the right site? http://onlineslangdictionary.com/ What URLs are you seeing this on? What browser and OS? I wonder if anyone else can repro what this new user is describing.

Post by 60secz » Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 2:02 PM UTC