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From the perspective of the newspapers: Google is exploiting copyrighted content to make profit and create audience. If the search index of Google was empty,
by rvnx 3y ago
From the perspective of the newspapers:
Google is exploiting copyrighted content to make profit and create audience.
If the search index of Google was empty, the people wouldn't use Google, it's that simple.
So the newspapers are asking for royalties for feeding that search index.
- gruez 3y agoBut they could easily opt out with robots.txt. They want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the free traffic from search engines AND want google to pay them for the privilege of bringing them traffic.
- zlg_codes 3y agorobots.txt is not an actual Internet standard, and there are no standard controls for when a bot ignores its contents. You're on your own to protect your pages. Granted, I have `disallow: /` in mine because I don't want my stuff scraped, but I still see Googlebot sometimes, and others, try to crawl my site. It's not a very effective opt-out, because it requires the 'attacker' to honor the file's settings. Feel free to enable it on your own server and watch the logs for a few days after sharing some links.
- 18pfsmt 3y agoHave you tried crying about the fact that you are getting traffic to your website that nobody would see otherwise? I hope daddy government treats you well. Count on Big Brother to save you, and they will beat you down when it's time as well.
- warning26 3y agoThat's like demanding that Rand McNally pay a fee to each city they print onto their maps. Or demanding that World Book Encyclopedia pay a royalty fee to every entity they write an article about. Noting that something exists and including it in reference material should by no means incur royalties.