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AP Shakes Fist at Google, Tells Internet to Get Off Its Damn Lawn [Going to attack other sites now]
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| Peter Kafka
Posted on 04/08/2009 2:58:30 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
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To: Graybeard58
I got exactly that far when I stopped reading.
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:18:49 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Pretending the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in suspension.)
To: La Lydia
I think they at least want the newspaper sites themselves to score the web hits. This means a payment back to AP, which is gotten from advertisers on the same pages that also pay for the hits. If somebody pastes a whole AP article into Huffington Post, none of that happens. Maybe if FR supported frames for such content so that the paper got its hit, they wouldn’t complain about FR any more.
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:23:06 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
So doesn’t Huffington Post have to play by the same rules we do, that is, post an excerpt and a link?
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:24:37 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: La Lydia
I don’t huff and puff, but I did look.
I believe they have a way of licensing limited content, like the conservative townhall.com also does. They’re both also very busy websites, not streamlined like FR.
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:29:25 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: RatherBiased.com
It will become an aggregator of its own content. Specifically, it plans on building search engine-friendly Web pages built around specific topics say, Fargo floods or Michelle Obama composed of links that direct readers to AP stories.
I already built a system that does that but it's not restricted to any single news source or reporter/columnist. Mine is an "aggregator" of news, information, editorials/commentaries, and mine also has the capabilities of aggregating from all sources, including all publishers, independent reporters/columnists, magazines, newspapers, TV and radio, or any other source. My system also directs readers to discussion sites where discussions of any news article or any column is underway.
However, my aggreagator will not use Google. My system, though not a search engine, will compete with Google as a content provider. My system will actually be a competitor to any content provider, including all newspapers, magazines, TV/radio, or anybody/anything. My system could actually bring about the quicker death of the NY Times, the AP or any other new source. However, my system could also bring traffic to any other online news source, whether a publisher or an independent writer/reporter/columnist/content provider.
I've not implemented the system yet because I'm trying to put the finishing touches on the CMS side of my system.
My incentive for developing the system were the biased news sources such as the AP and the NY Times and others. I want them to disappear or start becoming unbiased news sources.
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:33:27 PM PDT
by
adorno
(Where is Branch 4?)
To: abb
What ever happened to UPI?
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:38:05 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: DoughtyOne
Yeah ! What you said !!!!!
Stay safe D1 !
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:39:15 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: al baby
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:41:59 PM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:43:12 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: RatherBiased.com
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:43:31 PM PDT
by
Beckwith
(A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
To: IDRATHERNOT
You are absolutely correct.
If you ain’t on Google...you don’t exist.
They could make AP vanish.
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:48:13 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(McCain has been proven to be the rino flop I always thought he was.)
To: relictele
Google could nuke them entirely by becoming a wire service (what an archaic term) in full competition with AP. They would probably charge less... maybe even no cash except for using some space in the papers to sell their own ads.
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:56:18 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(No free man bows to a foreign king.)
To: RatherBiased.com
Stewart Brand at the first Hackers' Conference in 1984, made the following comment:
On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:56:29 PM PDT
by
Ben Mugged
("You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom".)
To: RatherBiased.com
Gosh, who to cheer for? Not enough bad things can happen to Google, but then somebody has to stand up for fair use.
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posted on
04/08/2009 3:58:55 PM PDT
by
Doohickey
(The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
To: RatherBiased.com
It's for the Independent Press to do the job of the ASSociated Press.
vs.
To: relictele
Google can squash them like a bug by taking them out of their search results.
It strikes me that google just needs to return fire by advertizing to hire a bunch of reporters.
It's the board of directors at AP that's $#!++!&& their pants, not the reporters.
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posted on
04/08/2009 5:46:43 PM PDT
by
delacoert
(imperat animus corpori, et paretur statim; imperat animus sibi, et resistitur -- Augustini)
To: RatherBiased.com
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posted on
04/08/2009 7:21:58 PM PDT
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: al baby
What ever happened to UPI? Helen Thomas.
Next question...
To: KarlInOhio
Google could nuke them entirely by becoming a wire service (what an archaic term) Yes but I love those teletype sounds and teletype-inspired music that used to intro the news.
To: Squantos
...staying safe. You too.
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posted on
04/08/2009 11:38:55 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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