Searchking vs. Google: the law suit..

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

Here is a link about the law suit brought over by Search King, an Oklahoma 
firm, against Google:

http://www.searchengineposition.com/info/Articles/GooglevsSearchKing.asp

Here is a link that shows what happened to the suit :-(

http://www.anoasis.co.uk/archives/000111.html

Rao

ps: If you don't think webfarms are alive and well, try doing a Google 
search on any hotel and see that the actual home page of the hotel
is almost always drowned out by the "brokers" trying to direct you to the 
hotel (so they can get commission).  [Sort of reminds me of the story
about Charlie Chaplin taking part in the "Charlie Chaplin look-alike" 
contest in Denmark and coming in second ;-)]

pps: For a whimisical look at web-farms see the link titled "Feline tips" 
in the readings for "Overall System" in the class readings list
It talks about how two grad students at U Wash tried to make their cat most 
popular of all cats according to Google.