Italy's antitrust watchdog is investigating Google

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090827/wr_nm/us_google_italy_antitrust

by matstc • 17 years ago

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dotcoma• 17 years ago

yeah, good idea.

The Prime Minister here owns 3 tv channels and somehow more or less controls RAI's other 3 national channels, and they investigate Google...

ilyak• 17 years ago

Well, I think we all agree that google agregating your news should be opt-out, and the threats to stop search-engine-indexing site which doesn't allow its news to be on unrelated news-aggregator service is ridiculous.

So that ridiculousness is worth investigation, sure.

On other hand, I don't see why newspapers would object aggregating their articles into google news. Google news is all about links to the newspaper sites; it's a source of clicks, not a way to steal content.

matstc• 17 years ago

I'm also curious about why companies might want to opt out of the news aggregator.

Although I'm wondering why companies even have a say in it. Isn't the aggregation involved fair use? If I start my own news aggregator do I have to ask publishing companies permission? I feel like I should be able to just aggregate them whether they like it or not.

sahaj• 17 years ago

can't they just setup robots.txt?

Italy's antitrust watchdog is investigating Google

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