Search Hates Barriers
We got a new search in Second Life. It works much better than the old one. Hell, it’s Google-powered. Unfortunately, as Tateru Nino recently discovered, there’s a huge bug when it comes to working around the Intellectual Property system. You can basically obtain any texture in Second Life now for free, and nobody will know.
I suppose it’s the nature of Search to be a work-around to access controls. It indexes things the way it needs to in order to get the job done, and doesn’t “think” any further than that. I’ll leave the “information wants to be free” blah blah to an etc etc whatever…
Well you know, it’s not the first time Google has found itself in this kind of situation. It’s way too early to tell if this is going to be a big problem or just a quickly squashed bug. We’ll see.
