http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2008/03/19/eric-schmidt-google-resistance-to-acap-based-on-technology/ Online journalism news Mon, 21 May 2012 22:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2008/03/19/eric-schmidt-google-resistance-to-acap-based-on-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-2223 chuck Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:41:35 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/03/19/eric-schmidt-google-resistance-to-acap-based-on-technology/#comment-2223 I spoke with the director of Web search R&D at the French search company Exalead, which worked with ACAP to develop the protocol. He told me that what Schmidt said about technology obstacles "made no sense." Exalead has been working with the search engine companies for over a year on acap, which is just an extension of robots.txt. Does anyone really believe that a company with Google's technical ability would not have figured it out by now? Google might be being a little bad. contact me if you're interested in reading my story in the most recent seybold report. I spoke with the director of Web search R&D at the French search company Exalead, which worked with ACAP to develop the protocol. He told me that what Schmidt said about technology obstacles “made no sense.” Exalead has been working with the search engine companies for over a year on acap, which is just an extension of robots.txt. Does anyone really believe that a company with Google’s technical ability would not have figured it out by now? Google might be being a little bad. contact me if you’re interested in reading my story in the most recent seybold report.

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