MrStitch - 6:26 pm on May 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

That story is just funny.... They're complaining that Google has a cached copy in their index. But does the average person read the cached copy?

Furthermore, can't they just use the noindex-nofollow meta data to keep the bots out? How about the robots text file?

Sounds to me like someone set up the website incorrectly, and now they want easy money.

If I were G, I'd tell 'em to take a hike. G, somewhere, has a list of standard protocols that they follow if you set up your site properly.

And hey, if they want their news stories heard around the world, but want everyone to pay for it... then again... set the site up CORRECTLY the first time, so that the person clicking the link will get a "You are not a paid member of this service".

Good lord... if you put your content out there with absolutely NO limitations ANYWHERE, then yeah, the spiders are naturally going to eat it up, and spit it back to the user.

But I suppose you can expect that to happen when you pay your 10 grandson to make a website for ya.