Comments on: Will Search Engines Start Paying For Exclusive Rights To Link to Content?

By: Chocolate VX-8575

Chocolate VX-8575 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:37:18 +0000

Does Murdoch think that by wiping the internet of their faux news that it doesn’t exist?

By: sorabji

sorabji — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:23:23 +0000

i’ve kept an eye on this story for a while, and while it probably goes without saying i think it obvious that murdoch is talking about something more than just robots.txt and the various meta tags that can block his sites from legitimate search indexes — emphasis on “legitimate” as there are plenty of rogue search bots (hosted by online-homeserver, keymachines.de, the list goes on) claiming to belong to google and the other searchies, gobbling up content from the likes of murdoch’s properties and spitting them out on link farms and other dead ends. plenty of content owners on the web do not like google, with its way of spraying unwanted traffic to random sites that only happen to have a keyword somewhere in the text. sites can be blocked via robots.txt, and for some outfits that can solve the problem of unwanted traffic. murdoch’s position is that blocking in this manner does not go far enough, relying as it does on the good intentions of the search companies and their inability/unwillingness to stop indexing harvested content. nothing stops google from indexing splog sites that could contain all wsj or nypost content; nor is google likely to stop indexing message boards and community sites where users habitually copy and paste complete content from whatever news source they please. i don’t know exactly what murdoch is up to or how he intends to reach his goals (whatever they really are) but to me it is shaping up as an interesting look at the future of some web content and a world where searchies begin to have personalities in the way network and print news used to have a “voice”.

By: Employment law attorney

Employment law attorney — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:21:20 +0000

Microsoft is buy everything..it might be better in the future

By: Ed Muller

Ed Muller — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:08:10 +0000

There’s no doubt things will start to change dramatically, and soon. With Microsoft now absolutely committed to taking search market share from Google, things will hopefully heat up across the board on issues like news content and advertising. Maybe this means we’ll one day have access to something other than Adsense for CPC revenue on content webpages too, but maybe I am dreaming.

By: David J Castello

David J Castello — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:03:21 +0000

jp:
You hit the nail on the head here: “BTW, think about how much more valuable direct navigation will be in a world where google’s organic results become less relavant.”

By: jp

jp — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:27:51 +0000

I keep saying (in comments in many past posts’ comments) how people need to start charging engines for access to their content. Everyone always says I’m crazy. Now Microsoft is proposing to pay, with a spin of course.

It just makes no sense to me why all these big content producers give away the keys to the castle to google so that they can make like 5% of what Google makes off the same content. It’s not like nobody knows that google is profiting off their content. What a crazy business deal it is the way things currently are.

BTW, think about how much more valuable direct navigation will be in a world where google’s organic results become less relavant. However will probably affect parking revenue negativly.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:57:29 +0000

That’s a really interesting concept, I’m surprised to see an idea that innovative come out of Microsoft. I would expect that to be a Google-first.