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friendlyseo - 10:46 pm on Aug 28, 2004 (gmt 0)


Linking and fair use - what is fair and what isn't?

When a search engine, meta search engine and/or directory such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, HotBot, metacrawler.com, DogPile, Overture etc. link to a web page URL and include an excerpt (not meta tag descriptions) usually no longer than a sentence or two or three, are they infringing upon copywritten material?

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[edited by: Jenstar at 12:28 am (utc) on Aug. 29, 2004]
[edit reason] No URLs please :) [/edit]


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