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SEO News: Google Beats Out AP

January 12th, 2012

Many an SEO delighted in the fact that in the recent elections, Google beat the AP to the punch with accurate results. For many a year, the AP was the standard when it came to what was considered trustworthy election news and results as they unfolded. It was believed the Internet could not be harnessed [...]

 
 
 

Real Time News Reporting in the Financial Sector Under Fire

June 23rd, 2010

A popular subscription based website, TheFlyOnTheWall.com, is under fire for reporting news too quickly – and Google and Twitter are leaping to its defense. “With information directly sourced from Wall Street traders, brokers, and institutional investors, theflyonthewall.com effectively delivers relevant, equity news in a concise and timely manner.” The service allows anonymous tipsters to leave [...]

 
 
 

AP, News Corp Visit China

October 10th, 2009

Associated Press president Tom Curley and News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch both made speeches yesterday in China, focusing on internet thievery. One remembers that AP started cracking down on even scraper sites or news blogs that posted snippets with a link back to an AP story – normal web practice, which generates more links to [...]

 
 
 

Don’t Link to Google News

September 21st, 2008

Linking to news stories has been a common practice for years, and since Google started running uncluttered versions in 2007, many thought it would be a great way to link out. Unfortunately, Google only keeps stories up for thirty days – which means after that your link is broken. This is one of the worst [...]

 
 
 

Associated Press Pitches Fits About Quoted Content

June 17th, 2008

AP has kind of a bad habit of suing everybody. They have brought suit against Google, Moreover and All Headline News, and now they are attacking The Drudge Retort. AP sent DMCA take-down notices to the Drudge Retort last week, along with a letter to Rogers Cadenhead, owner of the parody and social news site. [...]

 
 
 
 
 

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