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

CHAPTER 7Interpretation of Part 3

57“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.