ACAP

Publishers Introduce New Standard for Search Engine Indexing

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 29, 2007 - 11:33am.

New York - A consortium of newspaper publishers on Thursday introduced ACAP, a new open standard that will allow publishers, broadcasters and others to express the individual access and usage policies of their websites to search engine robots.

Publishers Developing Automated Usage Rights Data for Search Engines

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 22, 2006 - 11:21am.

London - In the wake of a Belgian court dispute over Google's use of news stories for its Google News aggregation service, a coalition of print media associations has developed an automated system that would provide embedded usage guidelines within stories distributed on the Web. The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) plans to launch its Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) system, which will provide search engine "spiders" that trawl news sites with information on how stories may be used, by the end of the year.