Newspapers are Clueless - Want Search Engines to Pay
According to C|Net News the old newspapers are all upset that Google and other search engines are ‘profiting’ from their content.
Web search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, collect headlines and photos for their users without compensating the publishers a cent, according to the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), which announced Tuesday that it intends to “challenge the exploitation of content” by the Googles and MSNs of the Web.
“The irony is that these search engines exist, largely, because of the traditional news and content aggregators and profit at their expense,” WAN President Gavin O’Reilly said in a statement.
Yet what is not stated is that all the newspaper would have to do is put in a simple robots.txt file on their sites. With this file they can ban Yahoo and Google and almost any other search engine they want. Of course that is not what these newspapers want either. They want Google to point people their way when the search results match - they just don’t want Google to figure out a way to profit from it too.







The mural of the B-17 Bomber “Day’s Pay” was donated by the Richland High School Class of 1993 to honor those workers who paid for the bomber.
The plane later served with the 8th Air Force in England. In March 1945, its was decorated with the Air Medal, five oak leaf clusters, and two major battle stars.

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I have never been one for case mods - but this beer dispensing case mod looks pretty tempting!