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Google Rival Yelp Claims Search Giant Broke Promise Made to Regulators (wsj.com)
Online-reviews firm Yelp alleged that Google is breaking a promise it made as part of a 2012 regulatory settlement to not scrape content from certain third-party sites including Yelp, escalating its yearslong battle against the search giant. Yelp said in a letter late Sunday to Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen that Google is using Yelp photos for local-business listings in its search results, despite Yelp's formal request that Google not pull such content from its site. From a report: As part of a December 2012 settlement to end an FTC investigation into Google, the tech giant agreed to not use content, including photos and user reviews, from third-party sites that opted out of such scraping. Google's commitment lasts through 2017 and applies to a variety of its products, including its local-business listings. "This is a flagrant violation of Google's promises to the FTC, and the FTC should reopen the Google case immediately," said Luther Lowe, Yelp's public-policy chief. Yelp has emerged as a leading critic of Google because the site believes the search giant unfairly uses its influence to stifle competitors.
Google's promises. HA!
Hu? I see nothing in the yelp.com/robots.txt file which prevent google from accessing the site. Did I miss something someware?
I'm sure that this could all be worked out if Yelp just purchased some advertising space on Google.
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
Karma Yelp, karma.
That's because it's owned fully by the CIA
Funny, actually sad, considering Google Corporate motto. Add Google trying to patent public domain technology,
https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
1/2 of their revenue coming from the US Government & military, (aka, selling YOU the user out)
http://politicalblindspot.com/...
Google is just a company, like most corporations today. There is little concern about people, it's all about profit. If people get hurt, so what as long as investors get a return.
Same topic from a non-paywalled site. For the four /. readers that read the summary and the article.
Or have people who uploaded those photos to Yelp also uploaded them to Google? I've noticed Google Maps has been pretty aggressive lately asking for photos of places I've visited. Considering Yelp doesn't pay their contributors, it's reasonable to assume contributors are very altruistic people who will honor Google's request and upload their photos there too.
Yelp must be complaining because it knows its days are numbered. If the 2012 agreement only lasts through 2017, then what happens in a few months? Google will steal *ALL* of Yelp's assets, and probably introduce their own product to put Yelp out of business.
simple solution - can we just scrape Yelp?
Website known for behaving unethically complains (legitimately) about other website behaving unethically.
#DeleteChrome
I remember when Google was the coolest thing. It was apparent that they would one day rule our lives. Most people, including myself, could not wait. Now that it is here, it sucks. I fell for it. I got duped by them like a few billion others. To their credit, Google did advance technology and our lives in many ways. In many ways we would not have leapt as far as fast as we have over the last decade and half without them. Now it is time for Google to step aside. It is time for Google to fail, and maybe even die. I think of all the "to big to fail" tech giants that have fallen flat on their face over the last 20 years. Google destroyed them all. Now that Google is too big to fail, I suspect their evil ways will be their own demise.
Eventually a smartphone/device/whatever will come along and whack Google over the head. This type of change none of us see coming until it happens.
Now that Cortana and Alexis are getting married, I would like to see Samsung get in on that with Tizen. A Microsoft\Amazon\Samsung phone sounds insane, but Microsoft (despite their mobile failing) and Samsung both have experience in mobile OS design. Meanwhile Amazon has... Well, Amazon has Amazon. It sounds like a train wreck, this is true, but I would like to believe something would come out of such a cooperation and be good. I can dream. Meanwhile, people who used to gush over Google - people like me - have been turning to Bing and Yandex in protest. Just a few years ago, I remember someone mentioning that they used Bing. Everyone in the room laughed at them. These days it's not so funny. With a company the size of Google, they should not have an average employee age of 29 - they do. And they are a bunch of fucking SJWs with forced "integration" policies that discriminate based on age, skin color, and gender. All in the most warped of ways. So yeah, this is a rant
If this post gets modded at all, it will be interesting to see which way it goes. A few years ago it would have been flamebait.
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No real surprise from google, that they think "What's mine is mine, and what's yours we can talk about"
I ran a website for a local band. Google refused to honor any standard to stop taking information and copyrighted work from our website. The band's music was scanned and downloaded on a nearly daily basis. Should I change an attribute on the file, such as the time or date they would down load it again. Regardless of how many times I sent E-Mails to Google, or went to their fake process of opting out of their searches they kept stealing.
Having folders that are not linked in any way Google uses it's power of its DNS servers to find it and steal it. Even if you have no link to a folder if ANY ONE references the page through the Internet Google would find it and copy the contents.
People. Google is Evil, not just bad nor greedy but EVIL.
Who do I root for? This is like having to choose whether to live next door to a child molester or a telemarketer.
Also, since when did Yelp become a 'Google rival'? I can understand that said about Bing or DuckDuckGo or Apple, but Yelp!? Nah!
Our brick-and-mortar store can be searched on Google and Yelp.
We supplied an image to Google. They show that and a street view image when you search.
We supplied nothing to Yelp. I assume they copied it from Google without our or Google's permission.
...stop a giant evil snowball from rolling over your village?
I'll throw in hot sauce as a starter.
Requiem for the American Dream
So much for doing no evil..
So a thief (who broke laws) cannot call the police after getting beaten up?
Calling out others' mistake when being accused of wrongful behavior is what kids do. Adults consider the act itself to determine if it was right or wrong.
If Google promised regulators not to do one thing, and then got caught doing exactly that thing, they should be called out for it, no matter who they did it to.
I would have more respect for Yelp's complaint if they just blocked Google and other monopolies altogether. They however exclusively only allow Google and other monopolies to crawl their site while blocking everyone else. Talk about hypocrisy.
Look at their robots.txt file. They only allow monopolies to crawl their site and for everyone else there is this big FU:
User-Agent: * /
Disallow:
I and others have dealt with them directly on this to get this changed for text but no luck.
and see clearly that we live in 1984.
I wish the best for the human species. Yet, I have no faith.
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