Hypocritical linking policy
Fodors.com, which now has a
travel blog, wants to
prohibit anyone from deep-linking into its content ("'deep linking' past the FODORS.COM homepage is strictly prohibited"). So even though the Fodors bloggers
deep-
link into other sites, Fodors' lawyers want to prevent you from doing the same thing. Someone at Fodors doesn't get the Web at all.
I thought we'd gotten past the ludicrous concept of "Don't link to us without permission"? I remember when, a few years ago, some companies were making a huge stink about this.
You'd think they'd like the traffic...