[olug] murdoch and gates join forces at last

[Adam Lassek]

I think they should do it. I wouldn't mind seeing News Corp. file for
bankruptcy. :)

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:38 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> I thought Mark Cuban suggested this last week, that Microsoft take the
> top 1,000 websites, and give them each 1 million dollars not to list
> their site in Google's index.
>
> First off, I assume the DoJ would be all over that, except the
> anti-trust guys seem to be very pro-Microsoft and anti-Google lately.
> They said they would have signed off on Microsoft swallowing Yahoo
> (removing competition and choice from the marketplace) but threated
> Google with a breakup if they tried to ink a search partership with
> Yahoo, and now they just hit Google with an anti-trust fine for their
> book deal. They said Google would have an unfair monopoly on the book
> market, and they're not even in that market yet. I love how that
> works.
>
> Even then, can a search engine just index anything it wants so long as
> it obeys robots.txt, and would it have to remove existing search
> indexes for those site? I'm not sure it would. Either way, if you're a
> top 1,000 site, do you rely on Google for people to find you? I assume
> it is actually the lower tiers of sites that rely on search engines to
> point people in their direction.
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Brady Cox <brady.cox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd really like to comment, but I am biased.
> >
> > On a personal note, I like robots.txt  It's very handy.
> >
> > Also on a personal note, paying people to not use a competitors
> > service?  IANAL, but that doesn't sound very kosher.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com>
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