engine - 8:25 am on Jul 25, 2009 (gmt 0)

It's the complete content scrapers abusing it that are causing the biggest problem, imho.

I see it that the search engines are doing a service, for free.

The 'papers' just need to do a better job at monetizing their sites in order to remain viable in the www age -- and they rightly should do so, because somebody has to pay the reporters, journalists, photographers, fact-checkers, editors and Web-workers for the valuable service they provide.

I completely agree with that.

The concept of protecting their interest is fine, as far as i'm concerned. I just won't give them any traffic and it will go elsewhere.