Many of the blogs are submitted by the bloggers itself

Thanks for accepting that not “all” blogs were user submitted and that the rest have been added using a bot. And I can say that for sure because you have neither taken any permission nor informed me by email before adding my Hindi blog to your site.

No body complains when a blog is listed and get visibility in google blogsearch or in some other search engine. This is also some thing like that.

I am surprised by this unapologetic attitude of Oneindia. Please accept the fact that you are “misusing” the blog content by showing them as your site-content. You have taken my permission before enlisting my blog at your site and I am complaining. There would be several such persons. Your intention in changing the permalink of the Posts and not showing original Blog URL is not to help the site gain prominence on search engines but is simply that you don’t want the site owner to know. Most of us check our referrer logs and I would have known if you had used original post links/site URL on your site (I noticed today that One India has now added the Blog URL as “Close” button/links on the Frame page).

If you really want to be a credible organization instead of justifying your wrong deeds you should immediately remove all such content that has not been submitted by the users directly or have been used by permission. Please remove my Blog listing immediately from your site.

Q – Have Oneindia taken permission from the Bloggers before listing them in your “directory”?

A – When ever one blog is added in to oneblogs a mail is sent to the blogger. If he asks us to delete we promptly do that.

Q – Were the sites voluntarily submitted to you?

A – Many of the blogs are submitted by the bloggers itself.

Q – Have you informed about this “pious” intention to the concerned bloggers?

A – No, we are not intimating the search visibility part since this is the rule of the game. No body complains when a blog is listed and get visibility in google blogsearch or in some other search engine. This is also some thing like that.

About your charge regarding copying content ..

your comment : About news, I had referred to a “Hindi” news items not English news, that appeared in Jagran and the same news appeared at your site with just the title changed”

Yes I too mentioned about Hindi news. That is why i mentioned lime ‘ taking content from news services like – PTI Bhasha, UNI Vartha or ANI Hindi service.’ – these are Hindi news services from PTI, UNI and ANI.

The story what you are mentioning in your blog [ http://thatshindi.oneindia.in/news/2007/11/14/2007111407301900.html ]

is a UNI Vartha [UNI's Hindi news service, from which you can get Hindi News] News. So naturally it will be in many other sites.

Hari

Oneindia is just giving an opportunity for the users to comment about one blog which is good for the blog. Since the blog is listed in a different URL, there is greater possibility of listing in the search engines which will increase the page views of that particular blog.

Very poor argument indeed. BTW, Have you informed about this “pious” intention to the concerned bloggers?

About news, I had referred to a “Hindi” news items not English news, that appeared in Jagran and the same news appeared at your site with just the title changed. Must tell you that Dinesh from OneIndia Hindi team has acknowledged on my Hindi Blog that in the past your team had “inadvertently” copied news from Google News.

Please note that I have no axe to grind here. I just wish that websites behave responsibly in the changing web-world instead of resorting to gimmicks to grow inorganically.

aggregating blogs like this and giving a platform for users to write about the blog and vote for the blog is a new concept in the internet which is not so popular in Inida.

and

An internet user can identify that oneindia blogs links are not in oneindia’s server since the page appears with a frame on the left. The user can close, the frame on the left, by clicking on the top X icon. then the url will be the permalink. Pl note that oneindia is not putting any advt in their frame and trying to monitise the bloggers content.

Oneindia is just giving an opportunity for the users to comment about one blog which is good for the blog. Since the blog is listed in a different url, there is greater possibility of listing in the search engines which will increase the page views of that particular blog.

ABOUT THE COPY IN JAGRAN

Oneindia hindi might be taking content from news services like PTI Bhasha, UNI Vartha or ANI Hindi service. They give their news to different media companies. these are Hindi Agencies in India, Ofcource these agencies have English version too which appears in hundreads of sites.

Hari

Thanks for the clarification.

I don’t think we have claimed anywhere that we are hosting those blogs on oneindia.in.

You have neither mentioned that it’s a Blog directory.

May I ask why the site is showing blogs & individual posts within frames? (example: http://blogs.oneindia.in/18728/87/2/showblog.php), Aren’t you guys misusing the Blog content without getting permission of the Blogger? Why are the post permalinks changed to oneindia URLs (which when clicked don’t take reader to the Blog post directly but open the blog within a frame page, example: http://blogs.oneindia.in/179437/87/1/showblog.php).

Are you informing the user anywhere that the blog is not hosted by you and that you are simply linking? Most gullible readers won’t realize this and you probably know that.

I would also like to know how you are sourcing your news. Yesterday I verified (see my Hindi blog post http://nuktachini.debashish.com/280) that many news items are also published on Jagran website as well. Are you syndicating the content with their permission?

Thanks,

Debashish