Monday, August 8, 2011

Remove me from Google, oh wait....

Several Belgian newspapers "filed a lawsuit against Google in 2006 claiming the web giant had no right to post links to their articles on Google News without payment or permission. They won, and a Belgian appeals court upheld their victory in May"

So Google blocked their content from News and Web Search:

Google spokesman William Echikson said the court decision applied to web search as well as Google News and the company faced fines of 25,000 euros, or $35,359, per infringement if it allowed the newspapers' websites to keep appearing.

And now they are complaining:

An article Friday on the web site of one of the newspapers, La Libre, took issue with Google's interpretation.
"It is necessary to distinguish the Google search engine from the Google news service," the article said. "The news editors do not oppose having their content referenced by the Google search engine, they refuse on the other hand for their informational content to be included in Google News," the article said.

Better be careful what you wish for.

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