Internet search Engine Service self-discipline Convention

Absrtact: November 1 afternoon news, China Internet Association held in Beijing, "Internet search engine service Self-discipline Convention" (hereinafter referred to as the Convention) signing ceremony, Baidu, 360 and other 12 search engine service enterprises signed the Convention. The Convention stipulates that the Contracting Parties shall follow

November 1 Afternoon news, the Chinese Internet Association held in Beijing, "Internet search engine service Self-discipline Convention" (hereinafter referred to as "Convention") signing ceremony, Baidu, 360 and other 12 search engine service enterprises signed the Convention. The Convention stipulates that the signatory parties follow the robots agreement, and the relevant websites should be deleted and disconnected in time for violating the content of the Convention.

The Convention consists of four chapters and 22 articles, applicable to members of the Chinese Internet Association and Internet practitioners who voluntarily accede to the Convention, and advocates active compliance by other practitioners.

The Convention initiative Enterprises resolutely resist obscenity, pornography and other illegal and bad information dissemination, follow the international practice of industry and business rules, adhere to the Robot Agreement (Protocol), follow the principles of fairness, openness and promote the free flow of information, to create a healthy competitive environment that encourages innovation and fairness, Respect and protection of intellectual property rights, respect for the legitimate interests of the obligee, protect user's privacy and personal information security, resist unfair competition behavior.

According to China Internet Association Qiheng President, since late August this year, in order to standardize Internet search engine services, promote the Internet search engine industry healthy and sustainable development, under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China Internet Association led the organization launched the Internet search engine services self-discipline work. On the basis of conducting research, after repeated deliberation and consultation, and after many times, the Chinese Internet Association organizes industry experts and related enterprises to study and formulate the "Internet search engine service self-discipline Convention".

Baidu, Instant Search, Pangu Search, Qihoo 360, Shanda Literature, Sogou, Tencent, NetEase, Sina, appropriate search, easy to check unlimited, search and other 12 units in the scene signed the "Internet search engine service self-discipline Convention", said will consciously abide by the rules of self-discipline Convention, and constantly improve service levels, Efforts to improve the user experience, and actively contribute to the healthy development of search engine services. Elwyn)

Appendix: "Internet search engine service Self-discipline Convention" full text

Internet search Engine Service self-discipline Convention

(Published by China Internet Association November 1, 2012)

Chapter I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

This Convention is formulated for standardizing Internet search engine services, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of Internet users, safeguarding fair competition, reasonable and orderly market environment and promoting the healthy and sustainable development of Internet search engine industry in China.

The Internet search engine service referred to in this Convention refers to the service that an Internet service provider uses a specific computer program to provide information to users through search methods such as keywords.

Article III This Convention applies to the Chinese Internet Association member unit and voluntarily joins "China Internet Industry Self-discipline Convention" the Internet Practice Unit, and the initiative other practice units actively abide by.

Fourth Internet search engine service providers should abide by the principles of law, integrity, fairness, neutrality and objectivity, comply with the spirit of openness, equality, cooperation and sharing, and actively safeguard national interests, public interests and industry interests, and respect the legitimate rights and interests of the right holders.

Chapter II Self-discipline content

Fifth, strictly abide by the relevant national laws, regulations, regulations and policies, carry out the Internet search engine services according to law, consciously abide by industry conventions and norms, actively strengthen the industry self-discipline, and strive to create a healthy and orderly Internet search engine service environment.

Sixth consciously implement the "Internet search engine provider to resist obscenity, pornography and other illegal and bad information self-discipline norms", resolutely resist obscenity, pornography and other illegal and bad information through the search engine dissemination, and actively build a healthy, civilized, upward Internet search engine spread order.

Seventh follows the international practice of industry and business rules, adhere to the Robot Agreement (Protocol).

Robot Protocol (Robots.txt) is a protocol used by internet site owners to give web instructions to a network robot (web robots).

Network Robot (web robots are also called network tourists, crawler programs, spider programs), is the automatic crawling network program. Search engines use these programs to index Web content, spammers use network robots to scan for e-mail addresses, and web bots have many other uses.

Eighth Internet station owner set up robot agreement should follow the principle of fair, open and promote the free flow of information, restrict search engine crawl should have the industry recognized reasonable justification, do not use the robot agreement to conduct unfair competition behavior, and actively create a positive competitive environment that encourages innovation and fairness.

Nineth, respect and protect intellectual property rights, respect the legitimate interests of the obligee, and actively resist piracy and other infringing acts; In the case of this Convention, before the publication of the violation of the contents of the robots agreement, in the receipt of the right to comply with the legal provisions of the notice, timely Delete, disconnect infringement links,

Tenth the search engine service provider has the obligation to help protect the user privacy and personal information security, receives the obligee to comply with the legal stipulation the notice, should promptly delete, disconnects the infringement content link.

The 11th article advocates fair and rational competition, resists unfair competition behavior, maintains fair, open, competitive and orderly market order, and actively creates market environment of equal participation, rational competition and sustainable development.

12th, to encourage innovation in technology and business models, improve search services, optimize search results, save network resources, and nurture and maintain innovative and active, open win-win, benign cycle of the industry's ecological system.

13th strengthen social responsibility, strengthen self-discipline, set up effective complaint channel, take the initiative to accept social supervision, timely find and improve service deficiencies, consciously standardize internet search engine service business behavior.

Chapter III Implementation of the Convention

14th China Internet Association industry Self-discipline Working Committee for the Implementation of this Convention, is responsible for organizing the signing and implementation of the Convention, and timely to the signatory to publicize the relevant national policies, laws and regulations.

15th a signatory unit shall consciously comply with the provisions of this Convention and, in contravention of this Convention and adversely affect it, any unit or individual shall have the right to report to the executing agency of this Convention. The Executive Body of the Convention, after verifying or organizing the assessment, gives internal warnings as appropriate and publicly condemns them in most mainstream media throughout the country.

16th the disputes and disputes between the signatory units shall be based on the principle of safeguarding the interests of the industry as a whole, seeking to resolve them by negotiation, and by mutual consent, the implementing agencies of this Convention may also be invited to mediate, as soon as possible, by means of reasonable compliance, And the mediation results are communicated to the relevant units, through the industry mediation can not be resolved, to the relevant management departments to put forward suggestions to deal with.

Fourth Chapter Annex

17th the Convention is signed by more than Two-thirds initiators, and it shall be published by the Chinese Internet Association.

18th This Convention follows the principle of "dynamic revision, progressive improvement", which is proposed by the executing agency of this Convention or more than One-third signatory units of this Convention, and with the consent of more than two-thirds signatory units, this Convention may be amended.

19th any internet search engine service provider who accepts the self-discipline provisions of this Convention may sign this Convention, the signatory may withdraw from this Convention and notify the implementing body of the Convention in writing, and the executing agency of this Convention shall publish regularly the list of signatures and withdrawal of units.

20th the relevant implementation rules and contentious matters of this Convention shall be organized by the Convention executing agency to organize the internet search engine enterprises to study and discuss, and to reach a consensus, as the annex to the Convention shall be published by the Chinese Internet Association, and the contracting units should abide by it. If there is no agreement, in the open, fair and impartial principle, the Executive Body of the Convention to organize the Internet search engine service enterprises to vote, the result of the implementation of the Convention to the relevant management to put forward proposals to deal with the important basis.

21st This Convention is explained by China Internet Association industry self-discipline Work Committee.

22nd The Convention shall be implemented as of the date of promulgation.

Attached：

I. International definition of a protocol on robots

Web Robots (also known as Web Wanderers, crawlers, or Spiders), are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Search engines such as Google use them to index the Web content, spammers use them to scan for email addresses, and tightly have many O Ther uses.

Web site owners use the/robots.txt file to give instructions about misspelling site to Web robots; This is called the exclusion Kyoto.

(Source: www.robotstxt.org)

List of sponsors of the Internet search Engine service self-discipline Convention

Baidu, Instant Search, Pangu Search, Qihoo 360, Shanda Literature, Sogou, Tencent, NetEase, Sina, appropriate search, easy to search unlimited, in search.