http://searchengineland.com/google-to-newspapers-robotstxt-you-22477 Search Engine Land: News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Fri, 25 May 2012 21:27:00 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://searchengineland.com/google-to-newspapers-robotstxt-you-22477/comment-page-1#comment-6244 chrisjohnston Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:55:07 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=22477#comment-6244 It seems that the publishing industry has been the dominant player in information distribution for so long that it hard for them to understand that they won't get a special set of rules. There is already a tool in place that they can use but they don't want that they want a tool just for them. Granted from a technological perspective it's more complex than that but basically that seems [to me] what is at stake here. I just wish a few more of the national papers would fall so that they remaining ones would figure out it is they who have to adapt to the web and not the other way around. It seems that the publishing industry has been the dominant player in information distribution for so long that it hard for them to understand that they won’t get a special set of rules. There is already a tool in place that they can use but they don’t want that they want a tool just for them. Granted from a technological perspective it’s more complex than that but basically that seems [to me] what is at stake here.
I just wish a few more of the national papers would fall so that they remaining ones would figure out it is they who have to adapt to the web and not the other way around.

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