swa66 - 3:32 pm on Jun 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

I don't get some of you. It's an algorithm. Sure it is. But that algorithm is made by somebody. That somebody can make many slightly different ones or make algorithims that have parameters that need to be determined before you can use it.

Somehow a choice has to be made as to which algorithim is going to be the next on the production sites. Somehow this needs to be evaluated. I'd be more than happy to see humans doing (part of) that evaluation.

No big news, and actually just a confirmation they do the right thing.

As for publishing copyrighted stuff without permission: all of us webmasters should be 100% against it in all cases. Journalist or not doesn't matter. Not that I think bloggers are journalists by default to start with. If bloggers think they are exempt what differs them from scraper sites? It's just a copyright infringement. The goal does not justify the means.