against web portals (that is the plan), their audience or / and against themselves?
Asian Media quotes 'The Korean Times':
"Beginning next month, Web portals will not be able to retain news content for more than one week due to an agreement among major domestic newspapers.
This means Internet users will not be able to search for any news through the portal sites seven days after they were provided to the Web portals. Instead, they will have to visit the online sites of newspapers to read a specific article ..."
Han Ki-bong, head of the newspaper association said "newspapers will not allow even the Google-like outbound link system after a week, putting a link on a news search result that redirects visitors to that of the newspapers ..."
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So what happens after 7 days?
Search engines need to and will show up other sources ... and the newspaper brand and content will disappears for many eyes and for good.
