atlrus - 8:04 pm on May 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

Guys, forget about the public domain - completely off topic, we can argue about this until Yahoo becomes the best search engine... :)

The bottom line may be - if you leave your registered gun on the street and someone takes it and commits a crime with it - you will also be jailed for not taking care of it.

Same with Google, Yahoo, etc. - if you do not want your content visited by any publicly traded search engine - put the "disallow" in your robots.txt and move one. Fair, unfair, that's the way it is.

Convince enough people that making $$$ from your free visitors without paying a dime is to much of a hustle to go along with the algo - and you may change it.

I dont think Google owes me anything - Let's agree that I give them free content (which I dont) and they give me free visitors. That's plenty of sugar in my Kool Aid. I can break this agreement at any time, so can Google. When you design a website you do not go into a joint venture with Google and I don't see any sane reason why would Google tell you anything about their company business.