http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112902 207_pf.html Publishers Seeking Web Controls News Organizations Propose Tighter Search Engine Rules
By Anick Jesdanun Associated Press Friday, November 30, 2007; D02 The desire for greater control over how search engines index and display Web sites is driving an effort launched yesterday by leading news organizations and other publishers to revise a 13-year-old technology for restricting access. Currently, <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Google+Inc.?tid=informline> Google, <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Yahoo%21+Inc.?tid=informlin e> Yahoo and other top search companies voluntarily respect a Web site's wishes as declared in a text file known as robots.txt, which a search engine's indexing software, called a crawler, knows to look for on a site. But as search engines expanded to offer services for displaying news and scanning printed books, news organizations and book publishers began to complain. News publishers said that Google was posting their news summaries, headlines and photos without permission. Google claimed that "fair use" provisions of copyright laws applied, though it eventually settled a lawsuit with <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Agence+France-Presse?tid=in formline> Agence France-Presse and agreed to pay the <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+Associated+Press?tid=in formline> Associated Press without a lawsuit filed. Financial terms haven't been disclosed. The proposed extensions, known as Automated Content Access Protocol, partly grew out of those disputes. Leading the ACAP effort were groups representing publishers of newspapers, magazines, online databases, books and journals. The AP is one of dozens of organizations that have joined ACAP. ... http://www.the-acap.org/project-documents.php 27.11.07 ACAP <http://www.the-acap.org/download.php?ACAP-TF-CrawlerCommunications-Part1-V1 .0.pdf> TF CrawlerCommunication Part1 V1.0 pdf Download <http://www.the-acap.org/download.php?ACAP-TF-CrawlerCommunications-Part1-V1 .0.pdf> > 27.11.07 ACAP <http://www.the-acap.org/download.php?ACAP-TF-CrawlerCommunications-Part2-V1 .0.pdf> TF CrawlerCommunication Part2 V1.0 pdf Download <http://www.the-acap.org/download.php?ACAP-TF-CrawlerCommunications-Part2-V1 .0.pdf> >
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