http://simonwillison.net/2002-07-05T17:24:24+00:00Simon Willison2002-07-05T17:24:24+00:002002-07-05T17:24:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2002/Jul/5/stupidDanishNewspapers/#atom-tag

<p>More deep linking stupidity (via <a href="http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/07/05#When:9:03:22AM">Scripting News</a>). A judge in Denmark has <a href="http://www.newsbooster.com/?pg=lost&amp;lan=eng">ruled in favour</a> of a newspaper who took a search engine to court over "deep linking", despite the search engine's spider following the <code>robots.txt</code> standard (it seems the newspaper didn't bother to implement a <code>robots.txt</code> file). Dave Winer summed things up perfectly:</p> <blockquote cite="http://www.newsbooster.com/?pg=lost&amp;lan=eng"><p>BTW, deep linking is an oxymoron. There's only one kind of linking on the Web. Why would you ever point to the home page of a news oriented site.</p></blockquote> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dave-winer">dave-winer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/denmark">denmark</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/linking">linking</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/robots-txt">robots-txt</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/stupid">stupid</a></p>