Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse 223
Dupple writes "In light of the recent story regarding Google threatening a French media ban after France proposed that search engines should pay for content, it seems a similar thing is happening in Brazil, with numerous papers leaving Google News. The controversy fueled one of the most intense debates during the Inter American Press Association's 68th General Assembly, which took place from Oct. 12 to 16 in São Paulo. On one side of the debate were defenders of news companies' authoring rights, like German attorney Felix Stang, who said, 'platforms like Google's compete directly with newspapers and magazines because they work like home pages and use content from them.' On the other, Google representatives said their platform provides a way to make journalistic content available to more people. According to Marcel Leonardi, the company's public policies director, Google News channels a billion clicks to news sites around the world."
My god! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let them (Score:2, Funny)
Because putting in the effort to find a technical solution is a lot harder than complaining to your politicians.
Re:My god! (Score:5, Funny)
Think of it as a multiple of Library of Congress stuffed with Kim Kardashian's butt cheeks . . .
Re:there's an available solution (Score:4, Funny)
Ah, but Robots.txt doesn't allow you to have it both ways.
For, um, totally reasonable reasons that I don't feel obliged to articulate right now, I deserve both the exposure of being listed by Google and payment from Google for listing me!
Sure, I could tell my server nerd to make the changes necessary to stop my content from being 'stolen' in about 30 seconds; but that would deny me the exposure that is my natural right...
Re:Let them (Score:4, Funny)
With the robots.txt solution, the way I understand it Google wouldn't even index the full article, and thus text that only appears in the article (not the summary) would not be factored into search results.
This is basically SEO suicide, but whatever... it's their server, they can cry if they want to.