AP Shakes Fist at Google, Tells Internet to Get Off Its Damn Lawn [Going to attack other sites now]

All Things Digital ^ | Peter Kafka

[Cyber Liberty]

I got exactly that far when I stopped reading.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I think they at least want the newspaper sites themselves to score the web hits. This means a payment back to AP, which is gotten from advertisers on the same pages that also pay for the hits. If somebody pastes a whole AP article into Huffington Post, none of that happens. Maybe if FR supported frames for such content so that the paper got its hit, they wouldn’t complain about FR any more.

[La Lydia]

So doesn’t Huffington Post have to play by the same rules we do, that is, post an excerpt and a link?

[HiTech RedNeck]

I don’t huff and puff, but I did look.

I believe they have a way of licensing limited content, like the conservative townhall.com also does. They’re both also very busy websites, not streamlined like FR.

[adorno]

It will become an aggregator of its own content. Specifically, it plans on building search engine-friendly Web pages built around specific topics — say, “Fargo floods” or “Michelle Obama” — composed of links that direct readers to AP stories.

I already built a system that does that but it's not restricted to any single news source or reporter/columnist. Mine is an "aggregator" of news, information, editorials/commentaries, and mine also has the capabilities of aggregating from all sources, including all publishers, independent reporters/columnists, magazines, newspapers, TV and radio, or any other source. My system also directs readers to discussion sites where discussions of any news article or any column is underway.

However, my aggreagator will not use Google. My system, though not a search engine, will compete with Google as a content provider. My system will actually be a competitor to any content provider, including all newspapers, magazines, TV/radio, or anybody/anything. My system could actually bring about the quicker death of the NY Times, the AP or any other new source. However, my system could also bring traffic to any other online news source, whether a publisher or an independent writer/reporter/columnist/content provider.

I've not implemented the system yet because I'm trying to put the finishing touches on the CMS side of my system.

My incentive for developing the system were the biased news sources such as the AP and the NY Times and others. I want them to disappear or start becoming unbiased news sources.

[al baby]

What ever happened to UPI?

[Squantos]

Yeah ! What you said !!!!!

Stay safe D1 !

[abb]

What’s left of it is owned by the same company that owns the Washington Times.

It was founded by Edward Willis Scripps when the AP wouldn’t sell to him. I just finished a family bio on Scripps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press_International

[al baby]

Hey Thank you

[Beckwith]

I hope they sue me, I can use the publicity.

The Obama File

[Bobalu]

You are absolutely correct.
If you ain’t on Google...you don’t exist.
They could make AP vanish.

[KarlInOhio]

Google could nuke them entirely by becoming a wire service (what an archaic term) in full competition with AP. They would probably charge less... maybe even no cash except for using some space in the papers to sell their own ads.

[Ben Mugged]

Stewart Brand at the first Hackers' Conference in 1984, made the following comment:

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

[Doohickey]

Gosh, who to cheer for? Not enough bad things can happen to Google, but then somebody has to stand up for fair use.

[Fester Chugabrew]

It's for the Independent Press to do the job of the ASSociated Press.

vs.

[delacoert]

Google can squash them like a bug by taking them out of their search results.

It strikes me that google just needs to return fire by advertizing to hire a bunch of reporters.

It's the board of directors at AP that's $#!++!&& their pants, not the reporters.

[Cacique]

btt for comment later

[relictele]

What ever happened to UPI?

Helen Thomas.

Next question...

[relictele]

Google could nuke them entirely by becoming a wire service (what an archaic term)

Yes but I love those teletype sounds and teletype-inspired music that used to intro the news.

[DoughtyOne]

...staying safe. You too.