Amias Channer wrote:
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:50:51 +0100
Tony Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Out of interest - how *do* google get away with republishing other
providers news?
With great wads of cash paid to licence them i suspect , google have
a lot of funds at their disposal which can make certain options
available to them that aren't to others.
Google may have a lot of money but they aren't always the easiest to get
money out of :-)
I can confirm in the UK that they do not pay for such content, though if
they started putting ads over the site things will change for certain.
However, at the moment they are, as Matthew pointed out, pushing traffic
through to each site in question which is welcomed on the whole from
most of the people I know involved with such sites.
As to what level of traffic it sends through to those sites, I couldn't
really guess, but in our experience it's not a huge amount in relation
to normal traffic. Depending on the site, blogs and mailing lists
probably account for a similar if not higher level of referral.
Agence France Presse famously kicked up a stink, and so Google removed
them from their pages:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050321-4723.html
Seán
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