[AznHisoka]

"I one-hundred-percent think we should be credited for them."

But in the Floyd Mayweather example, his site is mentioned in the blurb so in a way he is credited with it.

If he doesnt want to be in the snippet, then tell bankrate and every site that mention you to take down that mention.

if he doesnt want his site to be linked to from any snippet, just add Google to your robots.txt

dont want to do any of the above? ah... now we see he doesnt really have a legitimate complaint.

[turc1656]

Yeah, the issue here is that he doesn't want to block Google from indexing his site because he wants to be ranked in the results, so he allows Google to display information that is on his site. He would have to disallow reproduction of his site's materials formally, or the much easier method of robots.txt that you mention. Ideally, he would do both. But he knows that will also kill traffic because then he's limited to other search providers like (gasp) Bing.

This is all on him. Is what Google is doing shitty? Yeah. But at the same time it's almost insane that this guy knew his research could be boiled down to a single number (which is clearly displayed on his website) and his whole business model was getting Google traffic. You can't rely on an informal agreement with a titan of industry and expect to have any bargaining or negotiating power.

[phonon]

What? The snippet mentions/links to bankrate. If you then go to bankrate, it credits celebritynetworth. Bankrate can list any sort of information they please--you can't tell a site not to mention/link to you.