A group of Belgian newspapers sued Google for including them its Google News search
results, and now they are saying that Google is boycotting them, by not including
them.
Google can?t win.
Google is going to be screwed one way or the other if the...
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A group of Belgian newspapers sued Google for including them its Google News search
results, and now they are saying that Google is boycotting them, by not including
them.
Google can?t win.
Google is going to be screwed one way or the other if the Belgians have their way.
In 2006, Google was sued by a group of Belgian newspapers for including them in its
Google News listings.
The papers said there was a clear copyright violation.
According to the Belgians, copying a selection of a few words for a search result
was an onerous violation of copyrights.
The newspapers won in a European court, and
so Google pulled the papers from all search results.
Now the papers are crying
bloody murder.
They claim Google is boycotting them.
What? Are they psychotic?
Apparently, showing up on the search results page with the exact same information
as you would see on the Google News page is okay by them.
Google sees Google News
search and Google Web search as functionally the same thing, so it i
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