Comments on: Google’s Schmidt Explains Ranking Results To Publishers; Hint: Not The Answer They Wanted http://paidcontent.org/2009/04/08/419-googles-schmidt-explains-ranking-results-to-publishers-hint-not-the-ans/ The economics of digital content Sun, 19 May 2013 12:06:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Frodo http://paidcontent.org/2009/04/08/419-googles-schmidt-explains-ranking-results-to-publishers-hint-not-the-ans/#comment-68496 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:17:00 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/04/08/419-googles-schmidt-explains-ranking-results-to-publishers-hint-not-the-ans/#comment-68496 David – You don't get it, man. They don't want to compete with their own members. They want to beat out the bloggers, aggregators, and all the others who republish their content without having the rights to do so. It's impossible to do a search and NOT wind up on a site with AP content, and most of the time, the site you wind up on is republishing the content without paying the AP for the right to post it. Google can't get it straight, with or without links back to the source, and they just want their share.

]]> By: David Iwanow http://paidcontent.org/2009/04/08/419-googles-schmidt-explains-ranking-results-to-publishers-hint-not-the-ans/#comment-68495 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:22:02 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/04/08/419-googles-schmidt-explains-ranking-results-to-publishers-hint-not-the-ans/#comment-68495 re comment: If, however, you search Google for “eric schmidt newspapers”—we currently are the first link…

Take this as an example of why newspapers don't understand seo, what person would actually search for that phrase? Just in case I checked and sorry no search traffic and HuffingtonPost is #1 & #2

So do you they actually understand what they are actually complaining about?

AP makes money by selling the story or through syndication agreements why would they want to fight their members for that traffic they are already being paid for???

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