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04-16-09, 07:34 PM   #550
Hic
A Deviate Faerie Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Originally Posted by guice View Post
Sorry, then. I misspoke and meant newspapers attempts at online. They claim Google should be paying them. They claim people should pay for the news. One news CEO even said all newspapers should go offline for 1 week just to prove to everybody how much they are needed. A bit overboard isn't it? It's what WoWI just did. ^_^
Google shows the news and then links back to the newspaper, where I'm usually flooded with adds if I don't have an ad-blocker.

WM just "did it". No questions asked, no revenue to the host, no credit to the author. Nothing.

It's not the same thing, not even remotely. And if newspapers want to keep google out, they can. It's easy, it's something they can put on the page HTML to keep the spiders off. Did you ever wonder why didn't they use that option? Because google brings them visitors. It's that simple. And with hits, they can profit... profit is good.
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