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Comments: 1 +-   Publishers Seek Change in Search Result Content-> on Friday November 30 2007, @11:32PM explosivejared

Submitted by explosivejared on Friday November 30 2007, @11:32PM
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explosivejared writes "The Washington Post is running a story on the fight between publishers and search engines over just what exactly is allowed to be shown by the search results. Personally, I'm much more likely to go to a web site based on a concise, clear, and informative search result. However, this is making publishers uneasy. From the article:

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, Google, 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 Agence France-Presse and agreed to pay the 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."
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  • I'm currently doing a masters course in which we deal with just these kinds of problems. There are so many things going on, and so many things are hated by the publishing world. It seems like they are mostly stuck in their own traditional (and rather) rigid business models, simply going "Ooo, digital age, it's evil, go away", instead of taking the opposite stance of taking up on the new technologies and turning them into something for their own benefit. This certainly won't be the last thing we hear of suc
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