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While Android it obviously inspired by iOS, it's not a direct copy. A better example of Google's hypocrisy is their outright copying news articles into Google News despite the source companies asking them not to.



Healines and snippits, and they respect robots.txt. The full articles they have are licensed from the AP.


What about the case of TripAdvisor?

TripAdvisor says "Google, don't copy our reviews for Google places."

Google says "The only way we won't copy your content is if you opt-out of completely."

TA says "We can't do that, you're the only search engine there is."

Google just laughs maniacally.

http://www.tnooz.com/2010/12/08/news/google-places-blocked-f... http://www.tnooz.com/2011/01/11/news/tripadvisor-content-on-...


I don't see how that's relevant at all. Google gave them the option of not being indexed. They decided they would rather be indexed by Google than not. The complaint that TripAdvisor doesn't get precise, fine-grained control over what Google does with its index seems like a fairly different issue.




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