Friday, September 29, 2006
Why Does Europe Hate Google?
Google is learning first hand that being top dog encourages people to take you to court. Even though Yahoo News gets more traffic (at least in the U.S.), newspaper publishers in France and Belgium decided to sue Google to prevent linking to its news stories.
Google lost in court in the Belgian case, then lost one appeal, and will head back to court in November to try to overturn the decision that bans the company from linking to articles published by Belgian papers. (Google's home page also was linked to news stories in Belgium.)
Worst of all, Google was forced to wear the equivalent of a scarlet letter on its website by having to post the court decision for five days. That made folks at the company none too happy, as quoted by
Web Pro News.
I find it interesting that Google was the target while Yahoo (nor any other portal) was not sued. Google News does not post ads on its search pages or the results page, while Yahoo does. So suing a company that drives traffic to your sites but not garnering ad dollars while leaving Yahoo to profit is most curious.
I also don't know why Google doesn't put ads on its news pages. Perhaps the company is being overly cautious about lawsuits, but obviously that isn't working.
Posted By John Gartner at 06:45 PM
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(6) Comments on Why Does Europe Hate Google?
Hi,
I'm not sure that Yahoo news post ads ...but if Belgian publishers decide to sue Google, it's obviously for the money!
Comments by Lyononline : Friday, September 29, 2006 at 10:17 PM
I thought there were different rules in Europe that kept people from being able to sue people frivilously.
Comments by Paul : Monday, October 02, 2006 at 05:40 PM
Europe does not hate Google. In fact, we love Google and use a lot, but our rules are a bit different. Companies in US sue Google as much as companies in Europe and for the same reasons. It's the judges that take different decisions.
As for Googlenews, what happened in Belgium was severely criticized by Le Monde. The main French newspaper explained how it signed an agreement with Google allowing Google to use its news as long as Le Monde could choose wich were to be printed on Googlenews.
Bernard Girard
Author of Une révolution dans la management : le modèle Google
Comments by Bernard Girard : Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 02:16 AM
Google is the real evil emperior. Advertisers hate to use them but still do it is sad.
Comments by Bill Gates : Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 09:49 PM
Do You remember a loud noise about Google's censorship over Chinese Internet for some phrases and terms typed by Chinese? Unfortunatley, world opinion was right that such behaviour of world-leading informaion and media technologie deliverer was unacceptable. Sigismund Malinowsky, a boss in Olinio Industries and main SEO advisor in such company, has written a short resume on such topic which he has entitled: "Make Google.com show the same results regardless of country. Censorhip in China and much more..." (source: http://www.hate-google.kgb.pl). He has wisely written: "The cost of these Google practises are damaging both to the search engine integrity and to the society that seems increasingly to rely on it." We simply cannot rely only on this source of media files, written information, image search engine or different file types and extensions search engine. It is inadmissible for enlightened, well-educated and sensible person to type a word or phrase and wait impatiently if Google finds it or... not. Let's conclude gentleman's deal: the next time you will have to find something you will use other search engines so as to become more independent. Do not obey giant from USA any more! Sigismund Malinowsky from http://www.hate-google.kgb.pl has lately written: "Google has monopolised not only the market of written information, but also the market of video, graphics and images and radio as well as television or music." Do not count on freedom of possibility to freely search the web with Google. The colossus with haughty hordes of web crawlers (like googlebot, freshbot and others) and Google's SEO (Search engine Marketing) specialists are trying to tear up for themselves per cent by per cent of a ttal share in all kinds of web markets. Moreover, Google indexes only 1% of all the resources on the Internet. Not even a one unit more! Malinowsky says that Google-and-company monster launches attack against freedom of choice, against all the people and itself alone as well!
Comments by Ahmed : Wednesday, September 05, 2007 at 11:25 AM
the more i read about google the more i think it getting to big for there boots it like the real world with people trying to control you now the net my own escape is now becomethe same life is hard for us all why so many rules the world has gone mad
Comments by sburton : Friday, October 26, 2007 at 04:49 PM
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