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Google Asks Booble To Cease And Desist

Posted by simoniker on from the toodle-oo dept.

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."

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  1. Teoma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Teoma is giving a lot better results for most searches I try there compared to Google. Teoma does have some drawbacks, its database is not as big or as fresh and it does not have the extras like usenet search or a news search.

  2. Attn: Moderators by pleasetryanotherchoi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Troll? Really?

    This is clearly a parody of IANAL, and therefore protected under copyright law...

  3. Re:New user to booble by cheekyboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    question to Apple.

    What does error -1673 mean

    oh its in the include files , lets grep em.

    They'de rather waste 120meg of asian fonts and 400 meg of printer drivers for 10.3, but not 100k of ascii error messages. And they pay $200k for product managers there? Hope an earthquake swallows your home bud.

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