CMP Blocks Google News?

CMP Media, the trade technology media company, is blocking Google News users from its site, reports Jon. The blocking is not happening for me…so maybe it is only some kinds of CMP content.

Interesting how CMP puts it: “That site has chosen to reproduce a significant amount of our content in a manner that we deem to be outside the bounds of fair use on the World Wide Web. We have a major, ongoing investment in producing high-quality, authoritative content and we intend to protect that content vigorously. We have explained our decision to the site in question and asked that they cease the practice of lifting significant portions of our content.”

Which begs the question: if they don’t want users to come through from Google News, why don’t they just disallow Google news bot from spidering their site? it would be a less disruptive and less controversial move.

Anyway, it point to an increasingly defensive stance by trade publishers on dealing with news aggregators such as Google News and others. IDG is a famous example. It is famous for its rather regressive linking policies: read this: “IDG Prepares Case Against Deep Linkers“; this: “IDG Prevents Competitor from Linking to Its Sites“; this: “Deep Linking: Some Thoughts

Also see Trade Companies To Block Google and Other Search Engines?

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