Newspapers Love to Hate Google
April 17th, 2009 | Published in Internet, Links
Newspapers have a love/hate relationship with Google. They love the traffic it brings, but hate that it seems to be destroying their print profits. Consider what Robert Murdoch said:
“Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?” asked the News Corp. chief at a cable industry confab in Washington, D.C., Thursday. The answer, said Murdoch, should be, ” ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’ “
Danny Sullivan gives the solution that’s been around for over a decade:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
That little bit of code would stop Google from indexing their site. Their complains would be over.
But they don’t really want Google to stop “stealing their copyrights,” do they?