Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Google Custom Search Terms Of Service Humor

This paragraph in the terms of service (tos) for the new Google custom search application just cracks me up.

"GOOGLE MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE AND BRAND FEATURES. THE SERVICE AND BRAND FEATURES ARE DISTRIBUTED AND PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. GOOGLE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE GOOGLE SERVICE AND BRAND FEATURES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE INCLUDING ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE SEARCH RESULTS OBTAINED THROUGH USE OF THE SERVICE. GOOGLE MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE WILL INCLUDE ALL DOMAINS SPECIFIED BY YOU..."

And then, just for good measure, they tell you what the max amount they'll compensate you is in the event the custom search engine craps out on you.

"...UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL GOOGLE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY AMOUNT EXCEEDING ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1000.00)."

Posted By Jason Dowdell at 11:52 AM
Permanent Link: Google Custom Search Terms Of Service Humor | Comments (3)

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Upon checking this out, three features stood out:
1) You can exclude sites that you do not want in the results.
2) You can easily do so using the Google Marker.
3) Anyone can volunteer to help.

So we decided to throw up an experiment to encourage everyone to mark spam sites to be excluded from search results.

Working together as a community we may be able to radically improve the quality of the search results (or perhaps just get in a blacklisting war?)

The result is Putch - http://www.putch.com

Comments by Putch : Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 01:14 PM

While reading this article I want to invite users for a discussion in my blog

Can google get Gods mind?

This was one argument in 2004.I want to validate this argument with diverse opionions by comparing the current trends of google like the one which is described in the post above

http://ragusivanmalai.blogspot.com/2006/10/can-google-get-gods-mind.html

Come on Google users

Comments by Ragu Sivanmalai : Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 02:23 PM

The Putch project cracks me up... a site dedicated to an api... not a mashup but just an api, the thought had never occurred to me but I find it intriguing. I'd love to hear some reports on the revenue numbers.

Comments by Jason : Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 04:21 PM

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