Comments on: Google to Murdoch: Here’s a Piece of Rope. Have Fun! http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2009/12/02/google-to-murdoch-heres-a-piece-of-rope-have-fun/ 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 By: Randall http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2009/12/02/google-to-murdoch-heres-a-piece-of-rope-have-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-7918 Randall Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:01:14 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/?p=10339#comment-7918 "Theft"? Google crawls the web and enables search. If someone searches for an article that happens to be found on NYPOST, Google's search engine will dutifully point the searcher to the nypost.com web site, where it can be read by anyone who chooses to expose himself to Murdoch's advertisements. How is this even remotely akin to theft? If Murdoch doesn't want Google to index his papers, all he has to do is include a robots.txt file. “Theft”? Google crawls the web and enables search. If someone searches for an article that happens to be found on NYPOST, Google’s search engine will dutifully point the searcher to the nypost.com web site, where it can be read by anyone who chooses to expose himself to Murdoch’s advertisements. How is this even remotely akin to theft?

If Murdoch doesn’t want Google to index his papers, all he has to do is include a robots.txt file.

]]> By: tom http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2009/12/02/google-to-murdoch-heres-a-piece-of-rope-have-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-7721 tom Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:33:43 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/?p=10339#comment-7721 Your argument seems to hinge on page rank which has been effectively dead for about two years http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020960.html As for indexing I'd assume that spiders would still index subscription content, with these pages being available for previewed with access through a pay-gate. Your argument seems to hinge on page rank which has been effectively dead for about two years
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020960.html
As for indexing I’d assume that spiders would still index subscription content, with these pages being available for previewed with access through a pay-gate.

]]> By: Magnus Nilsson http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2009/12/02/google-to-murdoch-heres-a-piece-of-rope-have-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-7718 Magnus Nilsson Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:41:10 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/?p=10339#comment-7718 I completely disagree with article. If you have a simple way to pay, people will pay for things they value. This could be a car but it could also be an article in the New York Times. Google engineers are no different than the engineers of the atomic bomb. Extremely bright people applying their minds to a problem. The problem, though, is that they are legitimizing theft of Intellectual property. There used to be an expression relating to copyright - fair use. That term has no meaning to the Google crowd, it is all about selling ads under the disguise of do no evil. All well functioning societies are based on the respect for ownership. So, Google start sharing the revenue you make and do it quickly, or someone else will. I completely disagree with article. If you have a simple way to pay, people will pay for things they value. This could be a car but it could also be an article in the New York Times. Google engineers are no different than the engineers of the atomic bomb. Extremely bright people applying their minds to a problem. The problem, though, is that they are legitimizing theft of Intellectual property. There used to be an expression relating to copyright – fair use. That term has no meaning to the Google crowd, it is all about selling ads under the disguise of do no evil. All well functioning societies are based on the respect for ownership.
So, Google start sharing the revenue you make and do it quickly, or someone else will.

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