skipfactor - 4:14 am on Jul 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

Permission must be sought after and received.

Permission is granted or denied in the robots.txt and page meta tags right? I'm not a robots.txt attorney, but it seems to me that Google's database archive of their old stuff, of our old stuff, that was allowed via robots.txt, is forever harmless unless it can be proven that they violated the robots.txt.

And password-protecting the news is a stupid business model that's costing them more. I sort of feel sorry for the NYT SEO staff if there are any.