Google in Crap
Google news (ironically) recently carried a story about the Agence France-Presse (AFP) demaning $17.5(US) in damages from the search engine giant.
Apparently AFP makes money by selling its content to websites and they're a little annoyed that the Google spider just crawls the AFP site and hands it out to the world for free.
Sacre Bleu! I think they're just pissed about this.
Google claims that any site can ask to be removed from the spidering but the AFP says it has done so and continues to be spidered.
I gotta ask the question: Why can't the AFP protect their own stuff? How is it, exactly, that Google can spider their site and get their content? A simple password-protect scheme would foil the spiders unless they somehow became sentient and were able to haXor in.
And while we're at it: why the hell doesn't the AFP want to be indexed? As Steve Sabludowsky over at Bayoubuzz.com points out, everyone knows that Google news doesn't supply the whole story - it just plunks in the headline and provides a link to the story. So, again, say it with me: Why can't the AFP protect their own stuff?
Sounds to me like the AFP hasn't bothered to implement a security system at all. Rather they rely on obscure URLs or some other Mickey Mouse security measure that foils humans but not the Warsaw Pact Google-bots.
Sigh..what IS it with the French?
Apparently AFP makes money by selling its content to websites and they're a little annoyed that the Google spider just crawls the AFP site and hands it out to the world for free.
Sacre Bleu! I think they're just pissed about this.
It AFP does not want to take advantage of the enormous power of the Internet, then they should get off of the information superhighway and leave the Magical Kingdom to the rest of the content providers.
Steve Sabludowsky
Google claims that any site can ask to be removed from the spidering but the AFP says it has done so and continues to be spidered.
I gotta ask the question: Why can't the AFP protect their own stuff? How is it, exactly, that Google can spider their site and get their content? A simple password-protect scheme would foil the spiders unless they somehow became sentient and were able to haXor in.
And while we're at it: why the hell doesn't the AFP want to be indexed? As Steve Sabludowsky over at Bayoubuzz.com points out, everyone knows that Google news doesn't supply the whole story - it just plunks in the headline and provides a link to the story. So, again, say it with me: Why can't the AFP protect their own stuff?
Sounds to me like the AFP hasn't bothered to implement a security system at all. Rather they rely on obscure URLs or some other Mickey Mouse security measure that foils humans but not the Warsaw Pact Google-bots.
Sigh..what IS it with the French?
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