WAN responds to Google's rejection of ACAP
Posted by Carolyn Lo on March 17, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Rob Jonas, Google's head of media and publishing partnerships for Europe, has just rejected the need to adopt ACAP because he felt that "the robots.txt provides everything most publishers need to do.'
President of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) Gavin O'Reilly responded, "It's rather strange for Google to be telling publishers what they should think about robots.txt, when publishers worldwide - across all sectors - have already and clearly told Google that they fundamentally disagree."
Times Online adopted ACAP last November, becoming the first news website to do so.
To read WAN's official statement, click here.
Source: journalism.co.uk
President of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) Gavin O'Reilly responded, "It's rather strange for Google to be telling publishers what they should think about robots.txt, when publishers worldwide - across all sectors - have already and clearly told Google that they fundamentally disagree."
Times Online adopted ACAP last November, becoming the first news website to do so.
To read WAN's official statement, click here.
Source: journalism.co.uk
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