• Daggle, Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:15 PM

In a very long post about the sometimes-tempestuous relationship between newsapers and search engines, Danny Sullivan makes a sarcastic suggestion for Rupert Murdoch, who has been worried lately about Google stealing "all our copyrights." One simple line of code could put that to rest, Sullivan notes. The code "User-agent: *, Disallow: /" is all it takes.

"Done," Sullivan writes. "Do that, you're outta Google. All your pages will be removed, and you needn't worry about Google listing the Wall St. Journal at all.

"Oh, but you won't do that," he continues. "You want the traffic, but you also want to be like the AP and hope you can scare Google into paying you. Maybe that will work. Or maybe you'll be like all those Belgian papers that tried the same thing and watched their traffic sadly dry up."

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