Re: Google News

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

From: Tim O'Reilly [mailto:tim () oreilly com] 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 5:36 AM
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Google News

 

Dave, this same issue is playing out in other areas like Google Book Search.
I wrote about this tension within Google's strategy last year in a posting
called Book Search Should Work Like Web Search:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/book_search_sho.html

 

On Aug 9, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Dave Farber wrote:

 

Frode Helglund wrote:





Interesting:

 

"TechMeme founder Gabe Rivera makes an interesting observation on the Google
News story all over the blogosphere today.

 

    One thing that bugs me: they're now hosting original news content, yet
they prohibit other aggregators from crawling it (per robots.txt
restrictions and TOS). Of course Google News relies on the openness of other
organizations with original news content."

 

      <http://www.techcrunch.com> http://www.techcrunch.com/

 

      <http://tinyurl.com/otym4> http://tinyurl.com/otym4

 

Frode Hegland

ceo

The Hyperwords Company

www.gethyperwords.com

www.getfirefox.com






 

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