Murdoch is an idiot and a pill

Here is the story:

Mr Murdoch also indicated that he would use legal methods to prevent Google and other search engine “news aggregators” from taking his newspapers’ material.

Now to recap on the latest on the madness of Rupert Murdoch: He defended Glenn Beck and agreed that President Obama is a racist and hates white people. Now, Murdoch is hinting legal actions against Google and even BBC and accusing them of stealing his news!


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Really – going to sue Google over this? Let’s take a look at how much Fox News tries to keep Google out.

When a search engine goes to a website it reads a file called robots.txt. This is like an instruction manual for search engines on what to search and not to search. You can view my robots.txt file here.

So what does the robots.txt file on foxnews.com say?

User-agent: *Disallow: /printer_friendly_story

Disallow: /projects/livestream

#

User-agent: gsa-crawler

Allow: /printer_friendly_storyAllow: /google_search_index.xml

Allow: /google_news_index.xml

Allow: /*.xml.gz
#

Sitemap: http://www.foxnews.com/google_search_index.xml

Sitemap: http://www.foxnews.com/google_news_index.xml

Well look at that. Not only is Fox allowing Google, but they are giving specific directions to Google to read files and index those items.

The best way to explain this I can think of is the example of a robber. Let’s say you open the door and ask the robber to come on in. You then walk him around your house, pointing out all your valuables for him to take. Now after he takes them and leaves you decide to go after the robber legally. Of course a robber would be a person engaged in illegal activity generally, something Google isn’t.

But the tech behind robots. txt isn’t the only way to stop Google from indexing your site. Google offers numerous ways to have your site removed from their search engine, and have already said they will gladly pull his sites out of there, if he so wishes.