Somebody Call The Waambulance, Google Isn’t Perfect

Posted by on Aug 9, 2007 in Google, Search Engines | 0 comments
Everyone is up in arms lately about Google’s TOS and search robot lockout. People point to the hypocrisy of the situation citing that Google relies on ‘openness” from other web properties for it’s news service.

Everyone in the blogosphere needs to get over it, and realize that Google is a typical competitive corporate establishment that doesn’t always “do the right thing” and will aggressively look to protect and grow their business model.

Why do you think they are crusading against paid links? ( Ad Words anyone)


clipped from www.techcrunch.com

TechMeme founder Gabe Rivera makes an interesting observation on the Google News story all over the blogosphere today.

One thing that bugs me: they’re now hosting original news content, yet they prohibit other aggregators from crawling it (per robots.txt restrictions and TOS). Of course Google News relies on the openness of other organizations with original news content.

Google crawls news sites and grabs their content for republishing on Google News. They rely on the willingness of those news sites to get distribution on Google. But Google restricts others from crawling Google News itself via their robots.txt file and terms of use, which state that “you may not…use any robot, spider, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the [Google News] Service.”
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