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Is Microsoft Crawling Google?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the put-on-your-foil-hat dept.

triplecoil writes "Jason Dowdell over at WebProNews has written a piece questioning a tactic Microsoft might be using to beef up its new search engine. He thinks they might be dipping into Google's results to supplement its own. Dowdell likens it to leaving your garbage on the curb--anyone could conceivably go through it and take whatever is there for their own."

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  1. Violates Google's TOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    From Google's Terms of Service
    Personal Use Only

    The Google Services are made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use the Google Services to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales. You may not take the results from a Google search and reformat and display them, or mirror the Google home page or results pages on your Web site. You may not "meta-search" Google. If you want to make commercial use of the Google Services, you must enter into an agreement with Google to do so in advance. Please contact us for more information.
  2. Re:Does it violate Google's Terms of Service by nick13245 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes it does.
    From Googles Privacy Center (http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html):

    Personal Use Only

    The Google Services are made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use the Google Services to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales. You may not take the results from a Google search and reformat and display them, or mirror the Google home page or results pages on your Web site. You may not "meta-search" Google. If you want to make commercial use of the Google Services, you must enter into an agreement with Google to do so in advance. Please contact us for more information.

  3. Re:Don't concern yourself with this crap... by ad0gg · · Score: 5, Informative
    If don't want your site indexed or cached by google. Go here and follow the directions.

    Remove yourself from google

    "Note: If you believe your request is urgent and cannot wait until the next time Google crawls your site, use our automatic URL removal system. In order for this automated process to work, your webmaster must first insert the appropriate meta tags into the page's HTML code. "

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