Comments on: Belgian court ruling on Google News both confusing and a dangerous precedent

By: links for 2006-09-19 | blog.forret.com

links for 2006-09-19 | blog.forret.com — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:37:56 +0000

[...] Belgian court ruling on Google News both confusing and a dangerous precedent According to the verdict’s logic, of a search engine should ask permission explicitly from any publisher or website before indexing and caching its content, ignoring the well-established practice on the web of robots.txt and robot (NOCACHE, NOARCHIVE) (tags: google news krant press pers) [...]

By: Pascal

Pascal — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:24:51 +0000

~~It is hard to think up a more catastrophic blunder than to zap yourself out of Google, like Le Soir did...~~ Update: Le Soir and La Libre have dissappeared from the Belgian Google version, not from the international, French, UK version... The court did not order to take them out of the SERPS BTW, just the removal of the cached pages and the excerpts from Google News... Is the removal from the international Google pages just a matter of time? Is Google "taking revenge" by removing them from the index alltogether? Whatever may be the reason, that doesn't take away the serious business concerns news publishers face that see the advertising money flow to aggregators and search engines... that don't have an expensive editorial staff. The fact that Google News doesn't run any ads itself is not really relevant: the real danger for the publishers is that they loose a loyal returning audience, and instead would have to rely on a "zapping" audience scouring Digg-like meta publishers.

By: damien

damien — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:32:37 +0000

Dont you think that these editors have schooted a bullet in their own foot ?
That they have said “ok, make me disappear of the web” … ?