Social Intelligence Corp. takes personal information given to the company by its clients and uses its own software to search the web for user-generated content, collecting a broad array of links and categorizing data to generate matches.
But the search giant admits that since 2007, it has also been collectingcontent data from unsecured networks, a result, it says, of accidentally implementing experimental code that a developer created in 2006.
In other words, selecting from among content expressly submitted by users for publication is covered by the CDA but courts have not yet ruled on whether collecting and publishing content that was not submitted for publication would be similarly covered.