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Google actively indexes the news sites and offer present them in its search results. But on Facebook the news publishers voluntarily share their stories. That
by franklampard 6y ago
Google actively indexes the news sites and offer present them in its search results.
But on Facebook the news publishers voluntarily share their stories.
That’s the biggest difference in my opinion.
- sjwright 6y agoI don't agree. Explicitly permitting Googlebot to continually scour your site for decades—including letting it through the paywalls—also constitutes voluntary sharing of stories. The distinction is really just a technicality of whether the ongoing relationship is push or pull.
- alfiedotwtf 6y agoA simple robots.txt is all that was needed. But that wasn’t used by News Corp, so that suggests to me that they were just trying to ride on Google’s coat tails