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Searching for The New York Times

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the registration-required dept.

r.jimenezz writes "Adam L. Penenberg, an assistant professor at New York University, has written an interesting piece over at Wired about the contrast between the New York Times' relevance in the real world and the dismal rankings it gets in modern search engines' results. Penenberg discusses some very interesting ideas about opening up the Times digital archive and the impact this would have on its cyber presence."

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  1. Obvious answer.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...the search engines didn't want to register to read the friggin' articles. ;)

  2. 1st post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Registeration required to view my first post!

  3. Re:Registration required... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    the contrast between the New York Times' relevance in the real world

    What I like about the NY Times is that the understand that some things in life are more important. Take defeating Bush in 2004! That's definitely more important than, say, feigning the least bit of impartiatlity. The NY Times relevant? It's becoming more and more irrelevant every day. If I'm looking for biased and inaccurate news, it's my first stop.

  4. Re:registration not considered harmful by opeuga · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What do their plagiarizing employees deserve? Yeah, that screams credibility.

    ope

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  5. pass this by your boss. by twitter · · Score: -1, Redundant
    I'm sure that you have thought of this yourself, but you might try charging local libraries a fee for the right to republish your content. You could demand that they serve current advertisements that you charge for. The more subtle benefit to your newspaper is that you recoup your newspaper's trust by distributed and checkable storage. I imagine you might find 1000 libraries willing to store and host your content for $100/year.

    The only problem you might have is with AP content. Then again, $100,000 might pays for enough reporters to get some national material of your own if you don't already have it.

    How would you like to have a newspaper that's more trusted and with it than the New York Times?

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