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Sun blocks NewsNow from crawling its site 0

January 12, 2010
The Sun

NewsNow revealed this morning that it’s heard that News International will soon be blocking NewsNow from crawling The Sun’s site – just as it has done with the Times.

This has now happened, as the Sun’s robots.txt file shows.

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NewsNow vs the Times: I've decided I'm not sympathetic 3

January 09, 2010

I wrote yesterday that I was sympathetic towards NewsNow and its ongoing row with newspapers, especially the Times. I’ve now decided that I’m not.

NewsNow crawls the Times site in order to gather information for its paid service to businesses.

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NewsNow vs the Times: Right to crawl vs right to link 3

January 08, 2010
Newsnow

I am sympathetic towards NewsNow over the newspapers attempts to block it linking to them. The site has been blocked from showing Times Online stories. But I think it’s campaign is a little overblown:

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