Google Asks Booble To Cease And Desist

cosmodemonic writes "The folks at Search Engine Journal have the low-down on a cease and desist order that Google has sent to the porn search engine/Google parody Booble. It seems that, although Booble is claiming to be a parody (which is protected under law), Google is flexing its muscle because of the marketability of the parody." Search Engine Journal makes the reasonable suggestion: "Recent rulings may favor Google in the case, since Booble may be trying to profit from the marketability of the parody."

Comments

Can't Beat 'em, don't wanna buy them...

[Bandman]

I hope Google adds this to their search features. Who wouldn't want to harness the power of Google for searching pr0n?

Re:Can't Beat 'em, don't wanna buy them...

[bryhhh]

You've not used the image search with safesearch switched off then?

If this is the law now...

[Karl Cocknozzle]

Recent rulings may favor Google in the case, since Booble may be trying to profit from the marketability of the parody.

...Then we'll have to give "Weird Al" Yankovic the electric chair.

Shame, I liked Even Worse a lot when I was a boy...

Re:If this is the law now...

[mav[LAG]]

My favourite Weird Al quote of all time (from here):

Q: Hey Al!!!!! What do u think about Napster? I just want to know if you approve.

A: I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I'm concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!!!!!

Bummer.

[inode_buddha]

Pun intended. See topic.

I'm feeling Lucky

[bryhhh]

Why is there no 'I'm feeling Horny' button.

Re:I'm feeling Lucky

[Anonymous Coward]

No, you just need to change it to read, "I want to get lucky"

No permanent slashdot link?

[Anonymous Coward]

A search engine, like google, but that finds porn? Why is there no permanent link to this from the slashdot main page?

heh

[Mr_Silver]

I liked the comment at the bottom of the Booble page:

Booble.com is not affiliated with any other search engines (for starters, we have a sense of humor).

New user to booble

[microsoftisass]

Thanks slashdot for introducing me to booble!!! P0rn is the backbone of the internet, glad someone create a easy and funny way to search out my fetishes..

I think they're on solid ground here.

[pleasetryanotherchoi]

...the marketability of the parody

IWTKAL, but I think Booble is on pretty solid ground here. This is clearly, clearly a parody site (in fact, it's pretty bad parody if you ask me) and nowhere near functional.

I mean geez, a porn search engine that doesn't return any hits for "Jenna Haze," "Cherry Rain," or "Belladonna" is a long way from "marketable."

We put the Spring in Springfield

[irokie]

To shut it down sure would be twisted
We just learned this place existed...

The Simpsons has an answer for everything

Re:Good riddance anyway

[Anonymous Coward]

(Uh, hope my supervisor doesn't read slashdot too much...)

Why?

Afraid he might get ideas?

Google, say it isn't so!

[JofCoRe]

Argh, google has so far been one of those "good" and "nice" companies...

Is someone _really_ going to mistake the booble site for google? C'mon, it's pretty obvious that it's not google. I guess they're pissed that booble knocked off the look of the google page or something. But then they should just have booble chagne it so it's obviously different. Taking down the site name is just too much... I've always though booble was kinda funny :)

I guess google is just trying to protect their trademark or something, but really... is it that confusing?

I guess nobody's told Yahoo about yourmom.com yet... that site is organize pretty much like yahoo.com... they even mimic the logo. Hmmm, hope yahoo doesn't read slashdot, cuz I may have just alerted them... dammit!