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Content Owners to Charge Royalties for Searching?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pieces-of-the-pie dept.

dwarfking writes in with a story that follows up on the impact of recent Google events: "Ok, maybe I'm a little dense here, but isn't this plan more of an impact to the content provider than to the search engines. From the article: 'In one example of how ACAP would work, a newspaper publisher could grant search engines permission to index its site, but specify that only select ones display articles for a limited time after paying a royalty.' So, ok, a search engine company decides it doesn't want to pay royalties and therefore doesn't index the provider's site. Now won't the provider actually lose readers since their articles won't be locatable by search anymore?"

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  2. Content owners are the losers in the internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    n/t