This should come as no surprise from the people who’d Do you guys always have to do things your way/the hard way? Or are you just too lazy to put in meta elements and rel="nofollow"s?
I’m pretty disappointed that publishers spent all this time and money on trying to impose a standard on search engines that have worked pretty hard to give us the same capabilities already. The fact that ACAP may keep other sites from scraping newspaper sites’ content (yeah, right; they break copyright laws, why would they bother with the standard that you’re imposing on them?) is little consolation. After all, those publishers could have given that money to me
Best of all, nobody but Exalead has signed on yet. Google’s evaluating the ACAP proposal right now, but I think it’s more than a little presumptuous of the publishing industry to publish their own standard—when Google (et al.) already has a fairly similar set of standards—and expect everyone to bend over backwards to meet their demands. For a great analysis of the ACAP, via) Tag:
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