I discovered yesterday that the "search engine" http://www.hereuare.com is linking to and serving up cached copies of webpages in its search results even when said pages use the META ROBOTS NOARCHIVE instruction. What is particularly interesting is that it appears that they are using DMOZ as the root source for their "index/directory" but not crediting DMOZ. I say this, because I'm observing an uncanny correlation between my pages that are in the HereUare archive and my pages that are linked to by DMOZ. I've also discovered that Google is indexing the archived copies of other people's webpages (this is how I discovered this was happening).
If you are like me and prohibit search engines from serving up cached versions of your webpages, you should do a search to find out how many pages from your site this search engine is caching. You should also send HereUare and their upstream web hosting firm a DMCA cease and desist notice.
HereUare.com's web hosting provider is Above.net and the copyright agent for Above.net is:
Robert Sokota, Esq.
General Counsel
AboveNet Communications, Inc.
360 Hamilton Avenue
White Plains, New York 10601
HereUare should not be allowed to get away with flaunting copyright laws and ignoring the META ROBOTS NOARCHIVE instruction. Maybe if enough of us complain to Above.net we can get them shut down until they clean up their act.
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