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Google's take on free stories
Kevin Clifford, Photographer
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Michael Durisseau, Photographer, Assistant
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Santa Fe/Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 2:47 PM on 07.16.09 |
| ->> I think opting out with the code eliminates their being seen on Google, and their listing on a search will not be as high. So, give away your work to get a good search return, or don't , and don't be seen on Google...I could be wrong, though... |
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N. Scott Trimble, Photographer
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Lake Oswego | OR | USA | Posted: 4:20 PM on 07.16.09 |
->> And thus, I start the painstaking work of adding:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
tailored to all your websites, so I become the only photographer found on the internet. Ahhh yes.....8 ) |
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Wesley Hitt, Photographer
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Fayetteville | AR | USA | Posted: 5:50 PM on 07.16.09 |
->> One of the comments made about Copyright from the Comment Section:
"Copyright, in general, is an abused tool that typically cries out for misuse if only to balance the scales."
WOW! I will have to pick my lower lip up off the floor. Not sure what to say
about that comment. |
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Peter Wine, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Dayton | OH | USA | Posted: 6:45 PM on 07.16.09 |
->> I can't speak for all newspapers, so I'll just say this:
If I were a newspaper (or the AP, or whatever) I would not have a problem with Google or any other search engine LINKING to my web pages.
That is, after all part of the process of getting people to view your content (and the ads that surround it.) You can have people from all over the world reading your content, and if it's done right, they can get ads that are local to the viewer, but payable to the content creator.
The larger problem is when a site like Google News COPIES the content from the originator page to a local host so it is surrounded with THEIR ads.
In a sense, Google is to the Internet what TV Guide once was to TV stations: A way for people to find out when (or in the case of the web, where) the good stuff is.
Again, that's how it seems to me. |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 8:55 PM on 07.19.09 |
->> Don't know about you all, but my Google news page as no ads, and only very brief summaries of news - akin to what Google publishes in web search results. Just enough to whet your appetite to want to click through and read more on the news organization's site.
Don't really see what the issue is...although I wouldn't expect news organizations to "get it" with regard to Google any more than they "get" any other part of the online business... |
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Chris Stanfield, Photographer, Photo Editor
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