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."

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BooYah!

[Anonymous Coward]

FP Baby!

Its Mine!

RAY LIOTA IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1

[Anonymous Coward]

OMFG have you seen the GTA4 trailer it's like slow and it's telling you all the stuff you did in the first three then the music kicks in and and tommy comes out and gets a gun the earf is quaking and tommy is like fuck this im outie and HE STEELS A RIDE FROM TEH POLICEMAN with mickael jackson singing on teh radio and he pulls over in a alley and that annoying hooker lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! RAY LIOTA IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special SONY playstation disk that comes with EB games store.

Teoma

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Google is outsourcing

[Queuetue]

If you needed further evidence that google is "going corporate," I just saw that they are joining the outsourcing bandwagon.

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Attn: Moderators

[pleasetryanotherchoi]

Troll? Really?

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

Re:New user to booble

[cheekyboy]

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.