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**mailcol** · 07-08-2007, 05:45 AM

hi, is any web Guru can define the "non-commercial" term clearly?

I found this on Google RSS news usage

Quote:

Terms of use
We invite you to make noncommercial use of Google's RSS and Atom feeds on your website subject to these terms, Google's Terms of Service, and the Google News Terms of Service. If you incorporate our feeds onto your website, please also:

attribute the feeds to Google News.

attribute each news item to its provider, using the provider name as it appears in the Google News feed.

include a link to the Google News cluster of related articles for each news item, using the link provided in the Google News feed.

identify the search terms used to generate the feed.

May be my english too bad and i cant understand the non-commercial term precisely.

Or i list down the situation below, can some one explain to me whether it's consider as commercial/non-commercial?

Shopping Cart Website (this one i know, sure commercial)
Forum with no Ads/Sponsor link (non commercial rite?)
Forum/Website with AT LEAST ONE Referral Link
1. Quote:
  
  http://www.domain.com?id=123
Website with Google/any Ads
Website with no Ads/Sponsor but with ONE link to a commercial website (E.g. a footer link to a commercial website)

Can any guru explain to me whether the case 2~5, which one should be define commercial/non-commercial?

Billion thanks

**chrishirst** · 07-08-2007, 06:25 PM

point 2 of the Google News Terms of Service. pretty much covers it
(bolding by me)

Quote:

. Use of the Service. You may only display the content of the Service for your own personal use (i.e., non-commercial use) and may not otherwise copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content. For example, you may not use the Service to sell a product or service; use the Service to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales; take the results from the Service and reformat and display them, or use any robot, spider, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service. If you are uncertain whether your intended use of the Service is permissible, please contact us. In addition, Google shall have the right in its sole discretion to suspend or terminate the Service or your access to it.

**ADAM Web Design** · 07-09-2007, 12:08 AM

2. Non-commercial.
3. Commercial. Anything done for money is commercial.
4. Commercial.
5. That depends on the nature of the original site. The footer really doesn't have a bearing in this case.