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Deeplinking Prohibited by Indian Court

Posted by Hemos on

Anonymous Coward writes "The Delhi High Court recently passed a temporary injunction restraining India Jobs Search Engine Bixee.com from linking to Naukri.com. This is the first case of its kind in India. There have been similar cases before in the US (Ticketmaster vs Microsoft), Denmark, Australia and Germany before. Wikipedia has a detailed article on the "deeplinking" issue."

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  1. An article on the issue: by nursegirl · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.efytimes.com/fullnews.asp?edid=9018

    It appears that Bixee.com is an aggregator site for job searches, but Naukri is stating that "when [Bixee.com's] website becomes popular and gains a large number of hits, the necessity to access the plaintiff's website would be obviated."

    That doesn't make any sense. Aggregators can't survive without the sites that they aggregate. Most aggregator sites won't ever choose to become content providers, because of the resources that this would entail.

    Aggregators have positive and negative effects on the sites they aggregate, but it would be counter-productive for them to make the sites themselves unnecessary.