Tag: BELGIAN

Once upon a time a group of Belgian newspaper publishers decided that they didn't like how Google was indexing their news stories and publishing headlines and short snippets on Google News and Google.be. While many newspaper publishers realized that Google was actually directing traffic to their web sites, Copiepresse, the organization representing the group of Belgian publishers took Google to ...

Microsoft has jumped on the social news bandwagon, creating two websites with a digg like social voting style. One for Norwegian consumers, the other for French Belgians. The sites let users submit news, headlines, and blog postings that other users can vote on. Similar to the Digg and Netscape models, users check out the latest stories while voting and commenting on their favorites. Users can ...

A copyright complaint was launched by an organization that manages copyright for the Belgian press, and it appears as though they have concerns over Google reproducing articles from French speaking newspapers on Belgian websites. Supposedly Google sells advertising and makes money based on their content. In the ruling the court has ordered that Google pay 1 million euros a day if it does not ...