Dear WSJ: To Avoid Google Disease, Please Put A Condom On Your Content

I’d thought I’d heard it all in the debate over Google and newspapers, but yesterday Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson took it up a notch. He accused Google of making people slutty. If we’re using sexual metaphors now, here’s another one. Why doesn’t the Wall Street Journal and News Corporation in general put a condom around all of its content, to protect itself from Google? There’s a good brand called robots.txt that will help. Full Story »

Posted by Fabrice Florin - via Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, Tim O'Reilly

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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 22, 2009

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