Tag: walling

Mike Arrington notes that Google is walling off its news garden and keeping other services from spidering it.
Mike is right to point this out as hypocrisy. Google is making money off of other people’s work and wants to have some exclusivity.
Imagine if they did this with Blogger. To tell you the truth I’m very shocked Google hasn’t behaved like this earlier.
Here’s why walled gardens are important to companies (and why we hate them).