Categories of intermediary services
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A “mere conduit” service
- The transmission of information provided by the recipient of the service in a communication network or
- The provision of access to a communications network.
- The Storage of data only for the time reasonably necessary for the transmission.
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A “caching” service
- The transmission of information provided by the recipient of the service in a communication network
- Involving the automatic, temporary storage of information (performed for the sole purpose of making more efficient the information's onward transmission to other recipients upon their request).
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A “hosting” service
- The storage of information provided by, and at the request of, a recipient of the service;
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Online platform
- Hosting service, that, at the request of a recipient of the service, stores and disseminates information to the public (unless that activity is an ancillary feature of another service.
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Online marketplace
- Online platform allowing consumers to conclude contracts with traders remotely (B2C).
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Very large online platform
- A number of average monthly active recipients of the service ≥ 45 million
Online search engine
- Intermediary service, that allows users to input queries in order to perform searches of, in principle, all websites.
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Very large online search engine
- A number of average monthly active recipients of the service ≥ 45 million.