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UK Newspaper Websites To Become Nearly Invisible
smooth wombat writes "Various websites have tried to make readers pay for access to select parts of their sites. Now, in a bid to counter what he claims is theft of his material, Rupert Murdoch's Times and Sunday Times sites will become essentially invisible to web users. Except for their home pages, no stories will show up on Google. Starting in late June, Google and other search engines will be prevented from indexing and linking to stories. Registered users will still get free access until the cut off date."
It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...but no one cared.
Actually - since something of negative value was lost - value was gained ;)
and don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.
Yeah it's a bit stupid but then dinosaurs always did have small brains.
Yeah exactly. If I wanted to pay to be lied to, I'd become a Scientologist.
When that happens the Murdorks[1] will complain the google is blocking them.
[1] Yes, plural. Always two there are.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Murdoch has exited the Forbes top 100. Except nobody noticed, because only his pay sites mentioned it at all.
The biggest problem is that you cannot use a web site to wrap your fish 'n chips.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
So... If both Murdoch and the Church of Scientology sue Slashdot for publishing that comment, will they next sue each other for implying that they are like each other?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
I think this is probably what we Americans call a Hail Mary strategy -- put the ball up in the air in the final few seconds of a close, but lost, game and pray.
Except that the Hail Mary pass play succeeds sometimes. This is more analogous to having your punter take the snap from your own 1-yard line and try to run 99 yards for the TD. In his street clothes. Drunk.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Oh come on! At least make a cursory attempt to preserve pronunciation, e.g. Merde-och.
Yes, you twit, a hundred years ago - and that's exactly the point.
Oh. So I can let the lad go, then?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
And the sheer mass of stupid collected in that one courtroom would be enough to create a black hole.
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.