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Big Publishers Want Special Treatment from Google

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Update: In an interesting turn to this story, the New York Times has eliminated 993,000 article pages as it rolls International Herald Tribune (IHT) into the NYT site. Instead of redirecting the articles to the same article on NYT, they all simply go now to one landing page.

Ryan Tate at Valleywag
Original article: Big-brand publishers don't like being overshadowed by bloggers. What else is new?

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This is not a new discussion. As
But that's not how some of these publishers see it. They'd rather get special treatment based on their own brand rather than putting forth the effort in search engine optimization that others would when they weren't ranking to their satisfaction. Matt McGee (who has also
looked at a study showing that the Fortune 500 is still "largely invisible" in natural search results.

So where does Google stand? A recent update did supposedly
The big-brand publishers are awaiting a more concrete answer from Google. The council meets again on April 30. With so much gray, that answer is probably going to be hard to reach.

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