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September 15, 2009
Australian Newspaper Publishers: Search Engines Break Into Homes, Steal Content
Newspaper publishers are reaching such new lows with their arguments against search engines, I wonder how they stay in business at all. I mean, doesn't journalism require gathering facts and analyzing them?
The latest low is an Australian newspaper publisher who says that search engines indexing newspaper sites is essentially breaking and entering.
WRONG.
If anything, your newspaper is like a dance club, and you can deny entrance to the search engines if they're not dressed up enough for your taste. Just slap some no index code on your robots.txt file and it's like hiring the best bouncer in town.
Because, let's face it, you want eyeballs at your website. Otherwise, why have one? People find a ton of content through search, but if you're not liking the engines, just block them. Simple as pie.
Posted by Nathania Johnson on September 15, 2009 2:44 PM
Comments
It's an extremely odd argument, and you're exactly right, just throw in the robots.txt, and problem solved, no 'theft' of content.
Whingeing about it and not doing anything - it's like wanting to be a little bit of a virgin.
Scott Fitzgerald September 16, 2009 7:47 PM
