Google wants unique content on our websites to be accepted in their adsense program and have so many other requirements when google itself has no original content or information on it. Google simply crawls our websites, copy all the content without permission and displays it on their search engine results page and put ads on its sidebar (adwords) and earn billions out of it. Now that is a good copyright infringement. I just wanted to start a discussion here to know about your thoughts on this since i read an article on John Chow's website, you can read it here. http://www.johnchow.com/the-darkside-of-google-a-spooky-story/
It's a poor argument. Google doesn't display "all the information", merely displays a description with a link to the site (same as you can do). It isn't copyright infringement. If you don't want google to have access to your information, exclude it from the robots.txt. It's that easy.
if you do not want google steal your content, use robots.txt block them if you do not want google show your page content at SERP, use X-Robots-Tag NoSnippet header
If you do not like Google to crawl your website, very simple - block them otherwise leave it. It is true that Google built their business around website content made by webmasters and regular users. However, many webmasters also created their business around Google as well. Neither of us and Google would die just because one side abandoned another side. But don't you think this is a win-win situation? Google has built their own reputation not solely because of our content but their algorithm as well while webmasters built up business around Google using advantage from their reputation.
everyone needs a unique useful content, after google came everything has changed on the web, if google was not there you would have not found digitalpoint and made this thread!
Guys, i am not complaining about google, why would i anyway? I mean it is a great source of traffic. I just wanted to start a discussion about that post i read on that website. It kind of makes sense if you read that post completely whatsoever. I just wanted to know what you all thought. Its logical to block google bots through robots or have nofollow, noindex in meta.
Agreed, its a strange thread, BUT... There is a point to be made. Should Google ask us for permission first? Can I go to your house steal all of your things and then only return them when you ask? Whats the correct way?
Google is not legally required to ask permission for listings nor even caching pages as the courts have ruled it is "fair use" and also qualifies for the DMCA's 512(b) caching "safe harbor" for online service providers. Google doesn't need your permission, but it does respect "no archive" metatag and robots.txt file. The difference is that going into someone's house and taking their "things" is illegal, what Google does isn't.
If you don't want to let anyone get inside your home than you have to close doors noob . Why you submit sitemaps and increase google crawl rates if you don't like it . Gazzerman - if you make home without gate than you can not stop anyone noob . Use robots.txt as website gates and google will happily stay away from you . They already have enough websites to visit daily . Homes without gate always stay insecure and it is your fault if you open your cloths and say other are watching at you ...
thread is pointless if google doesn't exist no one will find your site you can't promote your business and a lot of other thing BTW if you don't want google to crawl your site just block it with robots.txt as other members mentioned in their above posts about the unique content you should know that the whole google is unique not like you said it depends on other website contents its wrong as i think
We all need Google for searching, not just for money, not just for readers. If there is not google then the information in the web wont be centralized. They are not stealing, just helping.