Google and the French-language newspapers of Belgium said Thursday that they had begun discussions aimed at defusing a legal battle over what content Google could index. The newspapers complained that the search engine’s “cached” links, which show material that may have been taken off the Web by the site owner, offered free access to archived material that the papers normally sell.http://iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/business/google.php
Google in talks with Belgian papers over links to articles
Google and the French-language newspapers of Belgium said Thursday that they had begun discussions aimed at defusing a legal battle over what content Google could index. The newspapers complained that the search engine’s “cached” links, which show material that may have been taken off the Web by the site owner, offered free access to archived material that the papers normally sell.