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Cox converting AutoTrader to Web
LAS VEGAS -- Cox Enterprises, publisher of the AutoTrader family of publications, will convert AutoTrader to Web only, effective this week. The decision won't affect AutoTrader Latino or AutoTrader Classics, which will continue to be printed, according to an AutoTrader spokesman.
Cox also ended its ownership of Interco Print, which prints the Trader publications, leaving Dominion Enterprises the sole owner of the printing company. Dominion said it will continue to print its roster of trader publications.
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Execs reveal why newspapers don't block Google
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To hear the poobahs of traditional media tell it, Google is to print
media what global warming is to the polar caps. At many once-stalwart
print publications, profits are melting away.
For several months, leaders at some of the nation's most influential
newspapers and periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, The
Associated Press, and the online arm of Forbes magazine have begun
blaming Google and similar Web services for at least some of their
deepening financial troubles. Google sells ads tied to the news blurbs
it "scrapes" from news sites. It links back to the Web sites from which
it acquired the content but doesn't share ad revenue with them. This
isn't fair, many media execs say.
(Credit:Forbes.com)
In all the very public bashing of Google, however, few if any of the
critics has answered why they don't just cut Google out of the equation
by preventing the search engine from indexing their Web pages. The task
could be accomplished by inserting a single line of code into their
URLs. If Forbes.com added a line such as forbes.com/robots.txt, content
from the site would be rendered invisible to Google.
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