The warning came in a submission to Australia’s senate on legislation Google said could open the way for copyright owners to take legal action against search engines for caching and archiving.
Google is putting their foot down here because they feel that the Australian senate is crossing the line here. Google one of the major players in the search industry.
“Given the vast size of the Internet, it is impossible for a search engine to contact personally each owner of a web page to determine whether the owner desires its web page to be searched, indexed or cached,” Google said Tuesday.
As it sits, that’s very true. I’ve never personally talked to a Google search rep or anyone about indexing my site or caching my site. Google does however, have rules setup so you can block search engines from caching or even indexing your site. Google follows these rules to the very last detail because that’s what helps make them a successful company — they follow the rules.
Could Google just back out of the AU search industry entirely? So if that did happen, what would the rest of the search engines do. Would Australia be left with no search engines and be forced to develop their own technology that some how adhered to their rules? AU is making a bad move here and they strongly need to reconsider their options.
