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Originally Posted by react
But shouldn't cooking search engines be equally protected? I don't think having a SE limited exclusively to broad category of content should be enough but there are certainly levels of manual input that could be troublesome.
The presentation certainly looked like a SE, search box, results, etc. There was categorized sponsor hosted content too though which may make that less obvious.
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That's a good point about genre-specific search engines, although I'd still say that the sites at issue don't really qualify as being that, either. To me, having a search function on a site does not make that site a 'search engine,' but as I said before, there's no telling whether the court would come to the same conclusion.
We'll just have to see how it all plays out -- if it plays out at all, that is. It might result in a quiet settlement that goes by with a lot less fanfare than the original filing of the complaint.