Search Engines, Indexing and Copyright Law
In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, intended to extend intellectual property rights to the web and to limit liability for online service providers.
Since then, search engines have used their web crawlers to identify and copy millions of available web pages to their own servers, which they then organize for display on search results. Without this service, website owners would be bound strictly to direct traffic, but the process of copying everything on the Internet has caused serious disputes over who controls content and exactly what constitutes a copyright infringement.
How Indexing Works
Google’s Quality Engineer Matt Cutts has offered a detailed explanation of how Google indexes a…
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Search Engines, Indexing and Copyright Law
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