Trade secrets would cover off other possibilities. In Google's case, trade secrets are key to their ability to maintain the market defining proprietary algorithms that anyone dealing with search marketing in any form is constantly trying to dissect...
Aside from the difficulty in pinning down the aforementioned flux, there's also the issue of the SEM practitioners who want their "trade secrets" high on a shelf like Grandma hiding her secret recipes.
Yahoo Sues Ex-Employee for Stolen Trade Secrets The Associate Press reports Yahoo sues former workers, alleging trade secrets were stolen(link to Mercury News). The reason it is not a privacy threat, they claim, is because they are not asking for...
The judge said; "Digital is not entitled to equitable relief on its claim for misappropriation of trade secrets, absent a showing of Google's willful misconduct. News.com reports that Google has won the Digital Evoy suit reported back in May 2005.
Yahoo Accused of Trying to Steal Trade Secrets - News.com reports that Nuance Communications, a California speech technology company, has asked a California court to place a temporarily restraining order on about 12 speech engineers who left...
At issue was a claim that Wall had published "proprietary and confidential information. However, the claim didn't list any specific infringing material that Wall was supposed to remove. Back in June, I heard from Aaron Wall of the SEO Book blog.
