The free ride that google gets on the backs of real content providers is going to be the real battle royale. Google vs Microsoft is a mythical match up.
This problem will solve itself rather quickly. None of the search sites will license the content, so no one can find their articles, so no one will read them. Their readership numbers crash and they have to change their business model or collapse as a viable on-line entity.
They just haven't realized that readership is the fuel in the internet engine - and that search is your "fuel injection" system.
Okay - stupid question - why has the AP not modified their robots.txt file to ban indexing? Why are they not requiring their clients to modify their robots.txt to ban indexing? Why is there no robots meta tags on their stories???
Oh, and on the live site I can get code to embed AP articles for free via an iframe onto my own site (the embed tools are on their menu). For a couple of bucks - using their own tools - I can pay to have some of their content on my site WITHOUT this wrapper using the icopyright service on any AP page.
Its a shame that their spokespeople seem to have no idea of the technologies running on their site right now. But what's worse is that news outlets like CNET and the NY Times happily quote them without actually doing any research and calling them out.
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There are a lot of things that AT&T's humongous Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone is, like a digital memo pad, a medium-size-reader, and a great photo companion.
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They just haven't realized that readership is the fuel in the internet engine - and that search is your "fuel injection" system.
Steve G.
Oh, and on the live site I can get code to embed AP articles for free via an iframe onto my own site (the embed tools are on their menu). For a couple of bucks - using their own tools - I can pay to have some of their content on my site WITHOUT this wrapper using the icopyright service on any AP page.
Its a shame that their spokespeople seem to have no idea of the technologies running on their site right now. But what's worse is that news outlets like CNET and the NY Times happily quote them without actually doing any research and calling them out.