Google Gives Publishers More Control Over How It Crawls Their News

Yesterday, Google threw complaining publishers a bone with its First Click Free program , which lets news sites limit the number of free clicks from Google News for any individual to five a day. News sites have long been accusing Google of profiting off of their news with Google News but today Google is making another concession to publishers. Google is launching a new crawler that will let publishers keep their content out of Google News and still remain in Google Search. Publishers have always been able to do this by filling out a contact form but now Google is making it easier by automating the technology with a news-crawler.