And here a newspaper proves how little it understands what the internet is all about. Here a search service is even being sued because it links directly to articles. People, think about it: if deep linking is banned, weblogs won't be allowed to link to the articles themselves anymore, only to the publisher's main pages. Anyone who sets a link would first have to check whether it's even legally feasible. Otherwise, he could be sued by such an ignorant organization.
Possibly Handelsblatt is also among those who complain about how much weblogs are displacing their quality content from Google search results.
Originally I reflexively linked to Handelsblatt. But I don't set links to such ignorant people, it could improve their Google ranking after all.
I can only hope that the BGH puts an end to this nonsense.
At heise online news there's the original article.