Nov 24, 2009

MediaNews, Belo want to block Google, too

MediaNews Group owner Dean Singleton said he will follow the lead of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and block Google News from linking to stories that are put behind pay walls, Bloomberg reported today. MediaNews plans to start charging for some content at papers in Chico, California and York, Pennsylvania, and Singleton said that content would be off limits.

From Bloomberg:

“The things that go behind pay walls, we will not let Google search to, but the things that are outside the pay wall we probably will, because we want the traffic,” Singleton said.

Belo, which owns the Riverside Press-Enterprise, also announced tentative plans to charge for some online content and said it would likewise block Google from indexing those stories.
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 24, 2009 at 5:24 PM

    Good Luck Dean! You're going to need it.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 25, 2009 at 1:25 PM

    his only shot is luck...no skill or talent left in that slum.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 25, 2009 at 1:26 PM

    luck is his only shot, no skill left in that slum.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 25, 2009 at 3:39 PM

    For all Dean's brave talk, I don't think there's anyone left at Media News who knows how to block Google from a technical standpoint. The good Web folks left long ago, and the ones who are left barely have a handle on what passes for the Web sites.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    dean couldn't hit air if he fell out of an aircraft...good luck with the google thing, lord knows in a tech race newspapers would win. Right!

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  6. AnonymousNovember 28, 2009 at 6:10 AM

    How is the revenue out there in langland? Looking at your newspapers, it appears that you are in need of some direction in how to mine some. The daily news sure needs some help and the current publisher should be bright enough to figure it out.

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