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Title: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: Herodes on October 30, 2012, 06:48:09 PM http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/30/google-pay-french-newspapers
Isn't this completely backwards? I mean, what would google lose (if anything), if they just blocked all french news papers from google search results ? Would it not be a much bigger problem for the news papers? How can a rational person argue that google should pay for indexing french news papers ? It seems to me it's just a desperate attempt to bring in money to the news papers, which probably are struggling already. Google are a search engine and brings traffic to these news papers, so to me, it seems like these newspapers are simply shooting themselves in the foot. Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: SgtSpike on October 30, 2012, 07:00:35 PM I don't think you'll find any argument here. There is nothing logical about this request.
Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: sukiho on October 30, 2012, 07:01:06 PM google used to be a search engine, now a lot of the search results are paid ads
Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: SgtSpike on October 30, 2012, 07:08:38 PM google used to be a search engine, now a lot of the search results are paid ads Yes, but this is the other way around."In Soviet France, ads pay for you." Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: cedivad on October 30, 2012, 07:23:47 PM It's a sort of fiat vs bitcoin. Fiat thinks to be shiny and better than bitcoin, truth is that there is a growing number of guys thinking the opposite. Newspapers cannot understand why their secolar business is going down in just under a decade, and push the governments to help them.
Google will simply cut them off if they don't find any good agreement google side. Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: caffeinewriter on October 30, 2012, 07:45:31 PM Why don't they go the logical route and accept payment in... Oh I don't know... TRAFFIC?
Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: Raoul Duke on October 30, 2012, 07:57:30 PM They can just use
Code: <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> Code: <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: C10H15N on October 30, 2012, 08:00:25 PM That doesn't cut a check. ;D
Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: underminer on October 31, 2012, 04:55:18 PM I've noticed google results are recently 100% more annoying. Loose synonyms and bairly similar acronyms are listed in the results. A search for something specific gets corrupted really fast when "tmi" becomes "tmz" and unrelated content clutters the results. Maybe it's a resistance move by the French, I'm now dependent on an annoying search engine...
Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: dunand on October 31, 2012, 05:37:35 PM They can just use Code: <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> Code: <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> No they want the butter and the money for the butter. They want users to be directed at them but they also want money for this. 8) Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on October 31, 2012, 05:40:58 PM They can just use Code: <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> Code: <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> Solves one problem, but creates a bigger one. What company would advertise on a newspaper's website when its content won't be indexed/searchable via Google? http://www.boldenterprises.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/shot-in-the-foot.jpg Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: malevolent on October 31, 2012, 09:22:24 PM I don't think you'll find any argument here. There is nothing logical about this request. Sure there is. They are French. (no offense to all of you normal Frenchies out there :P) Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: k3t3r on October 31, 2012, 10:00:57 PM not just a niche this would be a cavernous void in the market for someone.
Title: Re: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. Post by: Herodes on November 09, 2012, 04:54:21 PM I LOL'ed so hard! |
