Phillip Smith

From the "where was that protocol when I needed it" file

"Yesterday the powerful World Association of Newspapers (WAN) issued a rather terse statement, calling on Google "to respect the rights of contentcreators" and embrace a new access protocol for search engines indexing Web sites, known as the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP)."

Excuse my ignorance here... the w-h-a-t protocol?

(Excerpt from Poynter Online.)

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