Press Gazette: Times banned NewsNow over paid-for links service
Monday, 11 January 2010, 17:48
"[A] News International spokesman has … told Press Gazette: 'NewsNow has been using Times Online content as part of its paid-for, commercial as well as free services. They have continued to do so despite our direct requests for them to stop. As a result, we have taken the decision to disallow their indexing of our content.'"
NewsNow vs the Times: Right to crawl vs right to link » malcolm coles
Monday, 11 January 2010, 17:45
Malcolm Coles: "most of the media reporting the [Newsnow/Times] story – are confusing linking and crawling / indexing. … What the Times has done, however, is block NewsNow from crawling its site using its robots.txt file. This is nothing to do with linking to its site."
Malcolm Coles: NewsNow vs the Times: Right to crawl vs right to link
Monday, 11 January 2010, 17:45
Malcolm Coles: "most of the media reporting the [Newsnow/Times] story – are confusing linking and crawling / indexing. … What the Times has done, however, is block NewsNow from crawling its site using its robots.txt file. This is nothing to do with linking to its site."
Press release: News International blocks Newsnow from linking to all Times content
Friday, 8 January 2010, 14:09
"NewsNow.co.uk … has been told by News International (NI) that it may no longer link to any content on Times Online. … The blocking has been technically implemented via the robots.txt protocol, a convention for requesting search engines, web spiders and other web robots refrain from asking for pages from all or part of a website."
SourceWire: Newsnow to pull links to national newspaper content
Monday, 14 December 2009, 21:47
"NewsNow.co.uk … is to pull all links to many national newspaper websites from its subscription service as a result of a failure to reach agreement with The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited (the NLA) over the NLA's proposed 'Web Database Licence' scheme."
Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: Archived content and RSS feeds: The NewsNow problem
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 18:01
"As part of a series on Guardian.co.uk, the site published a piece yesterday from February 23 1972 headlined ‘IRA kills 7 in raid on Paras’ English base’. On the site we can see it’s from the archive and the date it was first published, but sites such as NewsNow.co.uk, which aggregate news headlines from RSS feeds, don’t make the distinction."
