I wonder how other directories will feel about having their info snapped up and submitted to Google? I'm sure something like Toronto.com (an example from my neighbourhood) has most of the info that Google wants on many of the businesses. One could probably copy and paste all this info and all that would be left to do would be to walk down the street and snap picture after picture of each storefront.
We've already heard comments that this would be a great revenue source for college students and we know how much they like to copy/paste...
Seems like maybe this is could be a clever avenue for Google to have deniability when other websites are plagiarized.
Sure - they do everything they can to make the Yellow Pages quick (free book, delivered once a year to your door!).
It can't ever be as quick as walking to my computer and typing in part of the business name and the area code that I live in into Google.
And like our 20-year-old friend, if it doesn't show up on Google, businesses are invisible to me unless I walk or drive past them. I haven't looked up anything local in the Yellow pages for years.
Actually, Melville didn't lose "gobs of money" to copying in England. All of his works were originally published in England before being published in America.
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I wonder how other directories will feel about having their info snapped up and submitted to Google? I'm sure something like Toronto.com (an example from my neighbourhood) has most of the info that Google wants on many of the businesses. One could probably copy and paste all this info and all that would be left to do would be to walk down the street and snap picture after picture of each storefront. We've already heard comments that this would be a great revenue source for college students and we know how much they like to copy/paste... Seems like maybe this is could be a clever avenue for Google to have deniability when other websites are plagiarized.
Sure - they do everything they can to make the Yellow Pages quick (free book, delivered once a year to your door!). It can't ever be as quick as walking to my computer and typing in part of the business name and the area code that I live in into Google. And like our 20-year-old friend, if it doesn't show up on Google, businesses are invisible to me unless I walk or drive past them. I haven't looked up anything local in the Yellow pages for years.
Actually, Melville didn't lose "gobs of money" to copying in England. All of his works were originally published in England before being published in America.