Wal-Mart Now Going After Search Engines for Linking to Sites With Black Friday Ads

It would appear that Wal-Mart’s lawyers need to come up with excuses to keep billing Wal-Mart every year around this time. Despite the fact that Wal-Mart employees admit that sites posting “Black Friday Ads” help drive more business, Wal-Mart’s hired guns keep threatening sites for posting the ads, falsely claiming a copyright on the content (hint: you can’t copyright prices). This year, they’ve stepped it up a notch and are claiming that it’s illegal to even link to a site that has such content.

Specifically, Wal-Mart’s high-priced law firm has sent a take-down notice to the site SearchAllDeals.com, which is a search engine/aggregator of various deals sites.

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