If the New York Times purchased About.com because of their expertise in search engine optimization, does that mean that The Times will start opening their archives to search? Does it mean that the archives will be free?
posted by Eric Hancock at
4:47 PM
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This is a good question. I wonder if the Times will gain (and listen to) About's expertise in terms of blogger culture. This would be huge, since if the Times opens its archives everyone else will follow suit. For now, though, when I need to link a newspaper site which I think will disappear, I usually link to the Google archive of the link.
BTW, I don't think your site qualifies as "terribly self-absorbed". I've seen such sites (they are legion) and they ain't pretty.
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Jeff Faria, at 8:42 PM
I really doubt that they'll open the archives. Maybe they'll open them to search engines as a way to get more people buying single articles. It would be cool, though.
I agree about the linking issue. I link to the Washington Post if I can. It would be great to link directly to The Times.
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Eric Hancock, at 8:53 PM
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