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Originally Posted by Garrett
Scroogle was not intended to make money - there was no motive for Scroogle other than to comment on Google's latest update. Daniel believes that what he was doing was fair use, and that Google essentially violated his right to free speech.
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Give me a break! Google hasn't vilolated Daniel's or any other person's Constitutional rights. They are a search engine. They can run their business any way they want.
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While they're mostly back to normal now (he did point out that, as of 12-22-03, "your city" + "hotel" still delivers irrelvant results), he thinks these changes point to an increased localization, a sort of Google Yellow Pages that will be an enormous money maker once Google goes public.
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I tried "jacksonville + hotel" and "jacksonville hotel" and got exactly what I expected. I'm not sure what happended yesterday (12-22-03), but I'm sure it is not some huge conspiracy to prevent me from finding a hotel.
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So, did Google block Scroogle because of a violation of company policy or because they didn't like that Scroogle revealed details about the change in their algorithm?
What do you think?
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Like I say, Google can block whomever they like - especially when their ToS are violated.