PART 3Providers of regulated user-to-user services and regulated search services: duties of care

CHAPTER 7Interpretation of Part 3

I157“Search content”, “search results” etc

1

This section applies for the purposes of this Part.

2

“Search content” means content that may be encountered in or via search results of a search service, except—

a

paid-for advertisements (see section 236),

b

content on the website of a recognised news publisher (see section 56), and

c

content that—

i

reproduces in full an article or written item that was originally published by a recognised news publisher (and is not a screenshot or photograph of that article or item or of part of it),

ii

is video or audio content that was originally published or broadcast by a recognised news publisher, and is not a clipped or edited form of such content (unless it is the recognised news publisher who has clipped or edited it), or

iii

is a link to an article or item within sub-paragraph (i) or to content within sub-paragraph (ii).

3

“Search results”, in relation to a search service, means content presented to a user of the service by operation of the search engine in response to a search request made by the user.

4

“Search” means search by any means, including by input of text or images or by speech, and references to a search request are to be construed accordingly.

5

In subsection (2), the reference to encountering content “via search results”—

a

is to encountering content as a result of interacting with search results (for example, by clicking on them);

b

does not include a reference to encountering content as a result of subsequent interactions with an internet service other than the search service.

6

In this section references to a search service include references to a user-to-user service that includes a search engine.