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Murdoch-Owned Sun Online Blocks Meltwater Media Monitor

Robert Andrews

May 13, 2010 5:56 PM

The Sun’s website has fallen in behind its News International stablemate Times Online by barring the PR media monitoring service Meltwater from crawling its articles. Sun Online used the robots.txt protocol to block the service on Thursday, meaning thousands of Meltwater customers around the world won’t get to inform clients…

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Posted In: Companies, News Corp., News International, meltwater, sun online

Sun Either Most Popular News Site, Or Amongst Least - Who Knows?

Robert Andrews

May 13, 2008 7:59 AM

This’ll ruffle some feathers amongst rival editors. ComScore claims Sun Online is the UK’s most popular news website, with 4.29 million monthly unique users in March - ahead of Guardian.co.uk (3.6 million), Telegraph.co.uk (2.7 million), Times Online (2.6 million), Mail Online (2.4 million) et al. That’s despite the increasingly standard…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, News Corp., News International, sun online

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