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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.
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.
Same topic from a non-paywalled site. For the four /. readers that read the summary and the article.
According to the rfc (http://www.robotstxt.org/norobots-rfc.txt) That would be something like
Disallow: *.png
Disallow: *.jpg
which google does support last time i checked. (Which is more then a year ago, but still).