Comments on: AP and News Corp continue to gripe about aggregators, search engines

By: Jymie Darling

Jymie Darling — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:27:45 +0000

How about not stealing content for your profit in blogs…after all…you sell ad content. Try writing your own take from the story line instead of making a buck off of someone else’s back and then crying when they call the bloggers on it. Most stories allow you to post on Myspace and Facebook, they are concerned when you copy and paste it to a blog to which you make money from it and they make none. It’s called business…in the USSA, you are all having a problem with understanding that you are NOT owed this kind of living. I’m sure if you simply referenced the article and then proceeded to be original (oh…my…what a concept?!) then there would be no problems. Most blogs I’ve seen are really worthless and are nothing more than theft with nothing really to gain from their so-called ‘insight’ other than a few sentences of 3rd grade quality intelligence and humor (reference the above article please). Bloggers where quaint when it came out…now they are simply regurgitated nonsense and theft. Boo hoo.

By: Michael Pastore

Michael Pastore — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:30:10 +0000

If you don’t want Google to index your web pages, you can:

1. Add a snippet of code to your site template, or to the top of each individual web page: the “Robots exclusion standard” takes care of things. Or …

2. Contact Google and tell them not to include your site in their search results. Or …

3. Pretend that options 1) and 2) above are impossible, and then insist that your content is being stolen, and then demand that Google must pay you a large amount of money.

The AP would do better to think of Google as a colleague, rather than an adversary. Perhaps the AP is trying to raise this issue from the dead, at this time when Google is a bit vulnerable from the negative publicity generated by the Google Book Search Settlement.

Michael Pastore
50 Benefits of Ebooks

By: Steve Jordan

Steve Jordan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:22:53 +0000

Rupert Murdoch called those who use their services in searches and blogs “content kleptomaniacs.”

This needs to go up there with the word “pirates” as the best use of a denigrating word to describe a major segment of your own audience…

By: Gary LaPointe

Gary LaPointe — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:57:41 +0000

Not-For-Profit places (companies?) still need to generate revenue to stay in business.

But I agree if Google (and the others) pulled them from the search engines they’d change their story quick enough!

The other thing is, AP doesn’t get to decide how little “fair use” is. They can decide how little you can use before they hassle you, but the courts decide fair use. (I think)

By: Paul Biba

Paul Biba — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:41:15 +0000

Because of AP’s position I won’t pick up or quote any AP news story, either from the AP or one of their papers, because we can’t really take the risk that they will sue us.