[olug] murdoch and gates join forces at last

[DYNATRON tech]

i agree with adam.

removing yourself via robots.txt is suicide for most websites that deal in
daily-updated content.
the paper industry is going extinct as it is.

only ego-maniacal dcks like murdoch would be this daft.

dinosaurs will die.


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:

> I think they should do it. I wouldn't mind seeing News Corp. file for
> bankruptcy. :)
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:38 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I thought Mark Cuban suggested this last week, that Microsoft take the
> > top 1,000 websites, and give them each 1 million dollars not to list
> > their site in Google's index.
> >
> > First off, I assume the DoJ would be all over that, except the
> > anti-trust guys seem to be very pro-Microsoft and anti-Google lately.
> > They said they would have signed off on Microsoft swallowing Yahoo
> > (removing competition and choice from the marketplace) but threated
> > Google with a breakup if they tried to ink a search partership with
> > Yahoo, and now they just hit Google with an anti-trust fine for their
> > book deal. They said Google would have an unfair monopoly on the book
> > market, and they're not even in that market yet. I love how that
> > works.
> >
> > Even then, can a search engine just index anything it wants so long as
> > it obeys robots.txt, and would it have to remove existing search
> > indexes for those site? I'm not sure it would. Either way, if you're a
> > top 1,000 site, do you rely on Google for people to find you? I assume
> > it is actually the lower tiers of sites that rely on search engines to
> > point people in their direction.
> >
> > -- T. J.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Brady Cox <brady.cox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'd really like to comment, but I am biased.
> > >
> > > On a personal note, I like robots.txt  It's very handy.
> > >
> > > Also on a personal note, paying people to not use a competitors
> > > service?  IANAL, but that doesn't sound very kosher.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112300119.html
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