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moultano on Feb 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Matt Cutt's thoughts on Google Bing Debate

I was using "standard" in two different ways there. Let me fix that:

>You're addressing the letter of the "law" not the spirit. Do we really need a new formal standard to indicate that this is unethical? To me it's pretty plain from the ethical standards the web has already agreed upon.

greendestiny on Feb 4, 2011 [–]

It's not plain at all. Perhaps this is a good way for the debate about clickstreams and robots.txt to start, but its certainly not settled.

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