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Searchking Loses Suit Against Google

Posted by michael on from the master-of-your-own-domain dept.

An anonymous reader submits this story that Searchking has lost its suit against Google for lowering search rankings. Silly lawsuit, good riddance. See our original story.

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  1. Lesson by mao+che+minh · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    This suit was completely unfounded. While it is encouraging to witness it getting shot down so quickly, it is still sad to know that so many retarded patent related lawsuits are getting passed and used in IT in malicious ways today. Copyright reform is needed, because it is stifiling more then just business now-a-days (as is evident by examining the recent actions of SCO).

    Imagine if they had won? They would have gotten revenue from a truly innovative and clever company just because they patented (regardless of prior art) and sued at the right time. Who knows how far that could have set Google back. Even if it didn't set Google back, it would still serve as a confirming set of evidence for companies looking to follow suit.

    PS: fist post fools.

  2. WT? Off topic!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mod parent down

  3. Re:IP Theft and The Linux Community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You may not be seth, but you're certainly an idiot.

  4. Re:IP Theft and The Linux Community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And what about the hordes of users actively pirating software? (A la astalavista.box.sk) You're going to find illegal activity in any camp. It's not just "linux users"

  5. You, sir, are a moron. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are a complete idiot and probably are working for either SCO or Microsoft

    Not only is your post offtopic, but is filled with lies and deception. Linux refers only to the kernel of the operating system, and nothing other than that, therefore making your contention about the fonts rather invalid, as that is used for X, and not Linux.

    What exactly has Linux stolen from anyone? If you have an IQ of more than 40, then you would easily figure out that SCO's claims are filled with shit, and if they do win, however unlikely that is, then this would prove that the United States is truly messed up. If anything, other companies have stolen from Linux. BSD and Linux have long been highly stable, reliable server operating systems, while Microsoft and their Windows shit can't even do that right, while they're constantly trying to "improve" their OS with shit like DRM and "empower" that 0.001% of the populace even cares to know what the hell it is.

    Playstation 2 Linux is not illegal. it was DISTRIBUTED BY SONY THEMSELVES FOR THEIR OWN FUCKING GAME CONSOLE. What do you mean, "None of this is going to hold up in a court of law" when Sony themselves have distributed it. And what's wrong with installing it on an Xbox? Can't we do whatever the hell we want with hardware that WE own?

    If you're gonna cite SCO, you might as well lick the third rail of a subway because their arguments are false. For example, their "scalability" argument about how Linux allegedly copied THEIR OS is completely false. Linux now supports over 64 processor SMP, while their third-rate Unixware operating system only supports only 8.

    If you don't like free software, fine. But don't go around telling lies about it. Calling those open source developers that have worked hard "thieves" is simply wrong, and it would take a person of very poor quality in order to say such a thing.

  6. Re:The trial was fixed... by PukkaStoryTeller · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ha, that is funny. i know that is a joke, but pigeons were trained during world war II to carry bombs onto enemy ships at sea. the idea was never carried out in actual combat, but it is interesting to read about. i watched a video in my high school psych class once. the pigeons would learn to play a series of notes on a miniature piano or point their beaks in a certain direction in order to receive food.

  7. Re:IP Theft and The Linux Community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Every one of your posts is either -1 or +5. GOOD JOB!!!

  8. Is Searchking still exploitable? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kinda looks like it!

    $ telnet www.searchking.com 22
    Trying 209.217.135.144...
    Connected to www.searchking.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_2.9p2

    $ telnet www.searchking.com 25
    Trying 209.217.135.144...
    Connected to www.searchking.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 seking1.mach10hosting.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.9.3; Sat, 31 May 2003 23:34:23 -0500

    $ telnet www.searchking.com 80
    Trying 209.217.135.144...
    Connected to www.searchking.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    HEAD / HTTP/1.0

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 04:36:28 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_jk mod_perl/1.27 DAV/1.0.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 PHP/4.2.2 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
    Last-Modified: Tue, 06 May 2003 14:33:10 GMT
    ETag: "3de37b-922f-3eb7c7a6"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 37423
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html

  9. Offtopic... by kmac06 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is somewhat offtopic...but when you do a google search for slashdot, there is an ad on the side for google software designers...guess they like the /. crowd :)

  10. Searchking loses suit against Google... by rob-fu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know, this article is interesting, but...

    can we get another article about Aimee Deep? Please?

  11. OT - straight from the meeting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NZ just got a geek.nz domain!

  12. Re:Good news for DNSbls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    stfu k thx

  13. Silly Rabbit! by Rassleholic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Silly Searchking, lawsuits are for fat people!

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    Not noteable, IMO a rubbish article.