Comments on: Thousands of Sites that Ban you from Linking to them.

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By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 28, 2011

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 28, 2011 — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:01:30 +0000

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By: Melanie Phung

Melanie Phung — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:57:31 +0000

I know lawyers write everything under the CYA principle (better to say they forbid everything, just in case) but when their ToS contain something so ludicrous as “you are not legally allowed to link to us”, you’d think that it could undermine the legitimacy of all the other (more important) stuff too. In other words, I would be less inclined to think ANY of the ToS are valid, if portions of it are clearly nonsense.

By: malcolm coles

malcolm coles — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:15:56 +0000

There’s definitely more than 28! There are a few different wordings sites use. They’ve all probably read http://www.out-law.com/page-5609 …
Even the Royal Mail still requires permission to link (http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=28000674&mediaId=28100668) although everyone laughed at them last year: http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/link-royal-mail/

By: Roie

Roie — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:49:04 +0000

Lately i’ve seen an even stranger phenomenon, of legitimate sites blocking search engines all together for no apparent reason. Maybe it has something to do with them being religious sites. These sites enjoy fair amounts of traffic according to Compete. You can see an example when searching “challies”