Linking and Copyright Infringement
The EU Court has made a pretty complicated decision a few days ago. Quick recap. A publisher linked to copyrighted material, which was published without consent somewhere in Australia. When the Australian website took down the content, the publisher updated the links to point to another website, still hosting the same content illegally. Recidivist behavior, essentially. Every search engine links to external content. I don’t know how this resolution will impact the business of search engines, but Google and friends probably have the (computational, monetary and legal) power to come up with a solution that complies with EU rules.