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[Brett_Tabke]

Copy Detection Mechanisms for Digital Documents *
Sergey Brin, James Davis, Hector Garcia-Molina:

[www-db.stanford.edu...]

Think about Google redistributing copyrighted documents when reading that one. The irony, the irony.

[digitalghost]

I'm not a lawyer, but even under the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000, it seems that Google's cache is on shaky ground. [dcita.gov.au...]

I've never been a fan of Google's cache, or the Wayback machine, both of which seem to dance around copyright issues, especially in regard to preserving works that the author may deem transitory.

DG

[24bit]

I think the Google cache is one of the many reasons why they're such a superior engine than the rest. I think it's great, and apparently so does a lot of other people.

[Brett_Tabke]

From Tara at Research Buzz, comes a good study on webcredibility:

[captology.stanford.edu...]

Fogg, B.J., Kameda, T., Boyd, J., Marshall, J., Sethi, R., Sockol, M., and Trowbridge, T. (2002). “Stanford-
Makovsky Web Credibility Study 2002: Investigating what makes Web sites credible today.” A Research
Report by the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab & Makovsky & Company. Stanford University. Available
at www.webcredibility.org