Google to Newspapers: “Have You Heard of ROBOTS.TXT?”
All day long, I’ve been publishing or pointing to stories in which for some reason the subjects of the posts have been ignoring or avoiding the simple solutions (like this one, with journalists wanting their old work to go away). Andy Plesser just posted video today of another great example: newspaper publishers.
Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson recently called Google some nasty things, saying: “There is no doubt that certain websites are best described as parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet.”
In this video, Google retorts: “Don’t like it? Block us!”
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