[j2kun]

Look at the slide entitled Gmail (5), and compare the picture with the first graph on my blog post http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/the-perceptron-and...

It just goes to show, Google steals content without attribution just like everyone else.

[tlammens]

I am trying really hard to ignore the Futurama picture. Really hard!

[j2kun]

At least I gave the source :) And I don't claim I'm any better.

[tlammens]

Correction, you added the source after my comment ;) But indeed, you didn't make that claim.

[j2kun]

I noticed that I didn't add the source, but when I wrote it I thought the source was self-evident from my mention of "Fry" and the animation style.

[pav3l]

Wait, they just used your graph and didn't even contact you about it?

[j2kun]

Shocking, right? I demand compensation! :)

[gms]

It's one guy who happens to work for Google, rather than the whole company.

[j2kun]

I imagine they have a release process to get something on research.google.com, though. So the company is endorsing it.

[gms]

What do you expect them to do? Somehow do an image-similarity search throughout the web for every image used in papers by their employees?

[jackpirate]

Yeah, it's not like they just have a giant image search engine laying around!

[patmcguire]

YouTube already has copyright infringement bots that mark copyrighted content and either give the holder the option to put ads on it or take it down.

Search also puts a lot of effort into identifying duplicated content to punish content farms. I've heard they're making progress on detecting algorithmically spun articles too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning).

Oh, and they have it for images. Here's the search result for the one they used: https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZivFQlmjC8rcxWC0MZ...

So yes, it'd be trivial for them to do so.

[j2kun]

I would expect them to read it once, and bounce it back to the author saying something along the lines of "Cite your sources, please." That's certainly within Google's power, no?

[SIULHT]

But if it's on the web, doesn't it belong to Google now?

[j2kun]

Aw crap. That was in the ToS wasn't it?

[nine_k]

BTW completely feasible with Google's resources. Can be fully automated, too.

[carlosaguayo]

No, but you would expect some kind of seriousness... Universities don't need to run image-similarity through papers published by their students right? Plagiarism is a big thing.

[gms]

Right. They tell them the policy and make sure it is understood, then they trust them because they cannot police every single image.

[chmodd]

They do (almost) the same thing at youtube, don't they?

[Muzza]

Using the same logic, a company can never be said to "do" anything. Everything is (ultimately) done by a real person.

[iamaaronlol]

The difference is in whether or not the individual is representing a company.