Tag archive: Meta

Have you ever wondered whether it's legal for Internet search engines like Google to automatically crawl a Web site and serve up snippets of it to search users? How about creating a cache of the pages it indexes, which can be served in their entirety without referencing the original site? Or using snippets of articles on news and aggregator sites? Well, certainly other people have pondered these questions, and Internet search titan… Read More

Meta-search engine Dogpile.com has compiled its lists of the most popular Internet search terms of 2005. Music lyrics, celebrity names, Internet sites, and gaming terms emerge as the most sought-after information, but some of the runners up aren't exactly what savvy Internet users might expect. Would you believe poetry, baby names, obituaries, and wedding vows? Dogpile is a business of InfoSpace, and is a aggregating search engine… Read More