| reply to drew
Re: to be fair Google *has* become a corporate citizen, that's what is going on. Remember how you could retrieve caches of anything and everything thru google's cache - an incredibly useful and popular service. They then turned it off on request, and then started applying "common sense" algorithms to do this automatically - such as no ebay links, etc. This is what happens when you have a team of lawyers telling you to watch your step every step of the way; and remember that google has IPO'ed - ie. they are a publicly traded company, at the mercy of the financial 'analysts' - nothing to do with technology. The moment they went IPO they have become much more susceptible to non-technical policies, and having to keep the investors (really the short-term profit takers at the moment) happy by not inviting costly lawsuits, or any sort of government regulations.
This is the price you pay for your incredible, runaway success in this capitalistic society.
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