Posted on 10/11/2007 9:22:05 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Living in the People's Republic of Maine and having to put up with the embarrassment known as Susan Collins and despising the commies who run Google is not good for the blood pressure.
Even the 9th Circus says it’s not a trademark infringement.
The article also points out the hypocrisy of MoveOn.org, as they name drop corporations all the time. Someone needs to fight fire with fire.
AlGore is a Google board member.
Here are some good search alternatives to Google. These will all go in FireFox search bar. Probably IE too, but I don’t use IE.
http://www.altavista.com/ they have image, video, MP3 Audio and news searches too.
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/index.htm
http://www.live.com/?searchonly=true&mkt=en-CA
If Google does not like our politics and values lets go elsewhere.
“I thought the use of the “Betray-Us” ad featuring their logo was the trademark violation. If it’s just the use of the name at issue, then of course it’s insane.”
Even if the ad were used, it is ‘fair use’. Political discourse can’t be supressed over brand identity.
Trademarks were established so businesses could protect themselves from similar sounding (or identical) copycats. That is a far cry from the issue here.
Dogpile has been mine for years...google = leftist traitors
I thought they had a reasonable out, given the cost of fighting in court against a political ally. Legal issues come up when someone threatens litigation — frivolous or otherwise — which they seem to be implying.
But... I was wrong. A lot of people don’t find it reasonable and the story’s getting traction. I hate Google anyway, so I’m fine with that.
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