Newspapers should stop them from indexing and offer up this API instead, at a price. Look, a web site is a web site. Facebook doesn't let Google in to index a

Newspapers should stop them from indexing and offer up this API instead, at a price. Look, a web site is a web site. Facebook doesn't let Google in to index all of it's data, this created an opportunity to eventually sell access to index it. Newspapers could do the same, stop them from indexing their sites and sell them access to this firehose api, just like _every_ other data-driven startup. No one flinches when Yelp offers and API with specific usage conditions. Newspapers should do the exact same thing.