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Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times
An anonymous reader writes "The Google cache is a popular feature among karma fetishists. Many stories with links to the NY Times attract comments pointing to Google's copy of the article. This gives readers access to the content without registering. C|Net reports that Google is in talks with the NY Times to close this backdoor. The article raises some general concerns regarding the caching of webcontent. Shouldn't the NY Times simply tell Google not to cache their site?"
Literarily, the NYT is in the upper echelon of international syndications. Sadly, this is the only estimable quality of the NYT, and thus uses this to gloss over its horrid attempt to maintain journalistic indifference. I say this not just because of the recent wrongdoings, but mostly of the bias it has towards the Jewish community. In no way am I an Anti-Semite, but it perturbs me to see the drastic propensity towards the Jewish faith and almost complete contempt for the Arabic world. We all know they should strive to create a neutral, completely factual account of matters, but the editors are palpably belying their integrity with nearly every Middle Eastern account. Just my $.02
Well it looks like you got the trolls bait.
Anyways I understand your point. But my main point is if you are going to have to deal with advertising you might as well get adds that you would rather see. And I think most people will be able to deal with adds so to keep the content free. Even Non-Profit organizations needs funds some how, (I cant even count how many tele-marketer calls I get from allegedly non-profit organizations).
As a side note although you pay cash and go to an independent book store you still get counted. You are still recorded to have bought a book and the book store will need to contact the publisher again to replenish the book in stock. So the publisher still knows that their is a person in wherever you live who bought your book. So they know that there are so many people in your area with your interests. Thus billboards, radio stations, tv stations will realize the percentage of people with your interests and target target all other forms of advertising in your area.
Is this a perfect system? No. But providing free content is expensive and getting stats helps companies to know what their audience is interested in. Not every company can function as a Non-Profit, organization because of things like competition and research, etc. Also not everyone can work for a Non-Profit organization. So people need to find ways to giving content and still being able to eat.
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Usually when they start going to Name Calling they are usually trolling.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.