http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/12/28/bloggers-are-becoming-aware-of-attention/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/12/28/bloggers-are-becoming-aware-of-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-2571 bawpcwpn Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:11:22 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/12/28/bloggers-are-becoming-aware-of-attention/#comment-2571 Well I had some content stolen by IMBD and then IMBD gets all the credit. Well I had some content stolen by IMBD and then IMBD gets all the credit.

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/12/28/bloggers-are-becoming-aware-of-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-2570 tinfoil Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:07:11 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/12/28/bloggers-are-becoming-aware-of-attention/#comment-2570 "Well the answer is simple some of these companies sole income is from aggregated data, those that are need to think about giving a percentage of profits back to those that bring the most eyes to their sites." <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> This could be expanded to include, say, Google. They index other peoples content and when someone searches for, oh, midget porn, they can sell some directed advertising. What would happen if everyone updated their robots.txt file to bar Googlebot from indexing their pages? Their income would be a tiny percentage of what it is now. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> So, Google, show me some love and cough up some cashish. More than the pittance I get from my Ads By Goooooooogle, that is. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> Personally, I don't care if people steal my stuff as long as they link back to it properly. Hell, I encourage it, which is why my site was among the first to adopt a Creative Commons License. Kudos to GNC for signing up as well. “Well the answer is simple some of these companies sole income is from aggregated data, those that are need to think about giving a percentage of profits back to those that bring the most eyes to their sites.”

This could be expanded to include, say, Google. They index other peoples content and when someone searches for, oh, midget porn, they can sell some directed advertising. What would happen if everyone updated their robots.txt file to bar Googlebot from indexing their pages? Their income would be a tiny percentage of what it is now.

So, Google, show me some love and cough up some cashish. More than the pittance I get from my Ads By Goooooooogle, that is.

Personally, I don’t care if people steal my stuff as long as they link back to it properly. Hell, I encourage it, which is why my site was among the first to adopt a Creative Commons License. Kudos to GNC for signing up as well.

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