I didn't elaborate on this before but you all have read elsewhere that a court in Belgium has upheld an earlier ruling against Google that prevents the search provider from copying newspaper headlines in its Google News service and search index. The case was introduced by Copiepress, an association of 18 Belgian newspapers. The sentence is confirmed but the penalties are reduced to 25.000€/day, which provide me material to estimate the revenue generated by Google on the Belgian market. In the US Google can refer to a fair usage to populate their service, in Belgium it will not be the case any more.Google must remove all citations to newspaper article from his search index and from his cache because that can be subject to copyright. OK but.. By doing that, it's not only the search indexing that is sentenced, Any reference to cached content is considered : the formatted cached version but also the relevance ranking, Keyword in context, ... It's also funny to see that the publishers know the rules of the game. if you don't want to be indexed, fill in the robot.txt file. Have a look at one of the newspaper member of copiepress, le soir... lesoir.be/robot.txt is quite empty. Go to the homepage of this site and guess what tool they use for their statistic :-)
