http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/google_thumbnails_of_porn_site_images_not_fair_use/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:07:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/google_thumbnails_of_porn_site_images_not_fair_use/comment-page-1/#comment-74583 slickdpdx Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:36:39 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/13785#comment-74583 How did Google lose? What's next:suing the library? How did Google lose? What's next:suing the library?

]]> http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/google_thumbnails_of_porn_site_images_not_fair_use/comment-page-1/#comment-74560 Russell Newquist Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:49:33 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/13785#comment-74560 I think there's a pretty straightforward technical fix to the problem: all Google needs to do is support a feature to allow publishers to tag images as "copyrighted" and then honor that tag. Something similar to the <a href="http://www.accordmarketing.com/tid/archive/nofollow.html" rel="nofollow">"nofollow" html tag</a> or, probably better, an extension to the the <a href="http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm" rel="nofollow">robots.txt</a> format. I think there's a pretty straightforward technical fix to the problem: all Google needs to do is support a feature to allow publishers to tag images as "copyrighted" and then honor that tag. Something similar to the "nofollow" html tag or, probably better, an extension to the the robots.txt format.

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