{"id":190912,"date":"2009-10-15T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/15\/wicked-stupid-media-moguls\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T19:11:00","slug":"wicked-stupid-media-moguls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/15\/wicked-stupid-media-moguls\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Stupid Media Moguls"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, Newscorp Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Tom Curley of USA Today, are whining yet again about how Google News is stealing their “content” by posting links when a search comes up.<\/p>\n

As Weston Kosova ably notes they don’t have to stand for this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Google doesn’t force Web sites to be included in its search listings. The people who run any site can remove it from Google’s results with a few keystrokes. All they have to do is go to the Web site’s robots.txt file and type this:<\/p>\n

User-agent: Googlebot<\/span><\/p>\n

Disallow: \/<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poof, the site becomes invisible to Google. Their stories will no longer show up in Google searches. It will be as if they don’t exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, that’s not what they really<\/span> want.<\/p>\n

What they really want is a law that:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Forces Google to publish links to their stories.<\/li>\n
  2. Forces Google to pay to publish links to their stories.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Because if they don’t get both, then they won’t get traffic and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So, Newscorp Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Tom Curley of USA Today, are whining yet again about how Google News is stealing their “content” by posting links when a search comes up. As Weston Kosova ably notes they don’t have to stand for this: Google doesn’t force Web sites to be included in its search listings. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997,1109,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-ip","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}