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Google And The Belgian Newspapers Start To Make Peace

There’s a slight thaw in the relationship between Google and French language newspapers printed in Belgium. Copiepresse, the publishing group representing the newspapers, and Google have agreed a system for Google to link the newspapers’ web sites and those newspaper sites are thus accessible again on Google.

But accessing archived material will be prevented by the newspapers using a “no archive” tag that stops the Google robot in its tracks when it comes across an item the publishers don’t want cached.

The two sides have not reached any out-of-court settlement yet on the main issue – using newspaper story links on Google News -- but the noises coming from both sides last week indicated a desire for there to be a meltdown and for everyone to become one big happy family again. – May 7, 2007


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Media Measurement Moves Forward and Everywhere NEW

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Further Complicated: Advertising, Children and Television

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The State of the Print Media in the World

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French National Newspapers
publishers, designs, editors all change, with comments. 40 pages PDF (updated July 2006)

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