I LOL'ed so hard!
Topic: French news papers asking Google to pay for linking to their content. (Read 908 times)
November 09, 2012, 11:54:21 AM
October 31, 2012, 05:00:57 PM
not just a niche this would be a cavernous void in the market for someone.
October 31, 2012, 04:22:24 PM
I don't think you'll find any argument here. There is nothing logical about this request.
Sure there is. They are French.
(no offense to all of you normal Frenchies out there
) 
October 31, 2012, 12:40:58 PM
They can just use
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And problem solved...
Solves one problem, but creates a bigger one. What company would advertise on a newspaper's website when its content won't be indexed/searchable via Google?
October 31, 2012, 12:37:35 PM
They can just use
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Or
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And problem solved...
No they want the butter and the money for the butter. They want users to be directed at them but they also want money for this.
October 31, 2012, 11:55:18 AM
I've noticed google results are recently 100% more annoying. Loose synonyms and bairly similar acronyms are listed in the results. A search for something specific gets corrupted really fast when "tmi" becomes "tmz" and unrelated content clutters the results. Maybe it's a resistance move by the French, I'm now dependent on an annoying search engine...
October 30, 2012, 03:00:25 PM
That doesn't cut a check. 
October 30, 2012, 02:57:30 PM
They can just use
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Or
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And problem solved...
October 30, 2012, 02:45:31 PM
Why don't they go the logical route and accept payment in... Oh I don't know... TRAFFIC?
October 30, 2012, 02:23:47 PM
It's a sort of fiat vs bitcoin. Fiat thinks to be shiny and better than bitcoin, truth is that there is a growing number of guys thinking the opposite. Newspapers cannot understand why their secolar business is going down in just under a decade, and push the governments to help them.
Google will simply cut them off if they don't find any good agreement google side.
Google will simply cut them off if they don't find any good agreement google side.
October 30, 2012, 02:08:38 PM
google used to be a search engine, now a lot of the search results are paid ads
Yes, but this is the other way around."In Soviet France, ads pay for you."
October 30, 2012, 02:01:06 PM
google used to be a search engine, now a lot of the search results are paid ads
October 30, 2012, 02:00:35 PM
I don't think you'll find any argument here. There is nothing logical about this request.
October 30, 2012, 01:48:09 PM
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/30/google-pay-french-newspapers
Isn't this completely backwards? I mean, what would google lose (if anything), if they just blocked all french news papers from google search results ? Would it not be a much bigger problem for the news papers?
How can a rational person argue that google should pay for indexing french news papers ? It seems to me it's just a desperate attempt to bring in money to the news papers, which probably are struggling already.
Google are a search engine and brings traffic to these news papers, so to me, it seems like these newspapers are simply shooting themselves in the foot.
Isn't this completely backwards? I mean, what would google lose (if anything), if they just blocked all french news papers from google search results ? Would it not be a much bigger problem for the news papers?
How can a rational person argue that google should pay for indexing french news papers ? It seems to me it's just a desperate attempt to bring in money to the news papers, which probably are struggling already.
Google are a search engine and brings traffic to these news papers, so to me, it seems like these newspapers are simply shooting themselves in the foot.
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