Three recipe websites are awaiting launch now the Cameron government has forced the BBC to remove their on-line recipes.
taste.co.uk is registered to Sainsbury’s Supermarkets ltd and is waiting to launch.
bestrecipes.co.uk is also awaiting launch as a website and mobile phone app. It is registered to Scottish millionaire Richard Emanuel (living in tax exile in Monaco).
recipes.co.uk is registered to Mark Singleton (an entrepreneur famous for pet websites). The website and mobile app is due to launch this year.
bestrecipes and taste are also the two largest recipe websites and mobile phone apps in Australia and provide massive ad revenues to their owner.
Both are owned by Rupert Murdoch.
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Time will tell. A story is a conspiracy until proved otherwise. I’m sure that Tom will unreservedly apologise personally to you Robeson if he is proved wrong; will you apologize unreservedly and politely if he is proved right?
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This is yet another example of cronyism, if not corruption – and we all stand around hardly believing that the snouts in the trough have so much contempt for people, institutions and society.
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Or it could be that they just want to reduce the cost in having all that data online. I am sure those sites were being prepared before this came out. Not everything is a conspiracy.
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TASTE seems to be run by a save the earth company..
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best recipes is run by..???
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James, relative hosting costs are so miniscule in this instance that they’re essentially non-existent. BBC Food is first in Google UK for “Food”, amongst thousands of other search terms. The value of this kind of brand-awareness far outweighs any insignificant hosting costs.
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taste.co.uk = 213.86.51.225 appears to be registered to COLT, a UK ISP. How is this connected to Sainsbury’s again?
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Ah, contact details are http://www.akqa.com/work/ , a digital agency.
person: Dan norice-Jones
address: AKQA
address: 38 German Street
address: London
address: SW1 Y6DN
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dralanwilson, look again at the registrant’s details:
Domain name:
taste.co.uk
Registrant:
sainsbury’s supermarkets ltd
Trading as:
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd
Registrant type:
UK Limited Company, (Company number: 3261722)
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dralanwilson That’s the IP address that the domain resolves to, not the domain itself.
taste.co.uk is registered to Sainsbury’s http://whois.domaintools.com/taste.co.uk and it has been since 1997
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Also bestrecipes.co.uk has been registered since 2000 and the domain is up for sale https://sedo.com/search/details.php4?language=us&domain=bestrecipes.co.uk
So not sure how you came up with it about to launch a site.
[see here:
https://tompride.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/bestrecipes.png ] -TOM
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How exactly do you arrive at the conclusion that the Gov’t has FORCED the BBC to remove these recipes?
There’s certainly no evidence of it in the article linked.
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I think we can all agree that this article is bullshit
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“How exactly do you arrive at the conclusion that the Gov’t has FORCED the BBC to remove these recipes?” – well forced may be not, but strongly suggested for sure… “If you’ve got a website that’s got features and cooking recipes – effectively the BBC website becomes the national newspaper as well as the national broadcaster. There are those sorts of issues we need to look at very carefully,” Osborne
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That’s terrible. BBC recipes were the best ones. The website was really easy to use and the recipes were always brilliant. 😦
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Taste was originally a joint venture between Carlton TV and Sainsbury’s, but it flopped and in 2001 was closed down with all assets (and presumably the URL) returning to Sainsburys. Not seen any mention of it re-launching anywhere. What’s the source for this?
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They say it costs too much to run two websites.. So they are cutting the one that is in keeping with their Charter – containing NO adverts – and keeping the one that has paid advertising on it.. And fewer recipes.
Obviously, it’s about privatising.. Again!
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Don’t forget that Jack Monroe’s is freely available https://cookingonabootstrap.com/
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The Tories are hellbent on extracting everything of value that has been built up by taxpayers over decades and stuffing the lot into private pockets. They are not ‘saving’ money for taxpayers they are making money for themselves.
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This is what they do. Chip away at little things, everybody gets bored, suddenly BBC sold off to their billionaire chums ‘cos ‘nobody wants it.’
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While I deplore the way the Conservatives are backing the BBC into a corner, I don’t think the notion that withdrawing the BBC recipes is some sort of a cunning plan to help Rupert Murdoch take over the world.
In the first place, I see no reason why the BBC has to completely junk its recipes altogether. Why not just transfer them over to http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes ?
A specialist site, all about food, with its own recipe section – and funded by advertising, not by the licence fee, so doesn’t have to abide by government-enforced cost savings. An ideal alternative berth, which neatly takes the recipes out of the argument. If they’ve got to go somewhere, why not here?
In the second place, the assumption that the demise of BBC recipes will leave a massive gap into which the likes of Rupert Murdoch can slickly insert themselves is just that – an assumption.
The web is absolutely stuffed with recipe sites, including….
http://allrecipes.co.uk
http://www.food.com
https://www.epicurious.com
http://www.simplyrecipes.com
http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk
http://www.thekitchn.com
http://www.yummly.com
http://www.chowhound.com
http://www.cookinglight.com
http://www.cooks.com
http://www.myrecipes.com
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes
http://www.mydish.co.uk
…and so on. There are more – many more – than those I’ve listed, but I think that lot illustrates my point. If you want to see more, Google ’em up, like I did.
So even if the BBC recipe site vanished tomorrow, it would not leave a particularly big gap in the market. If anything, I’d say the market is already overcrowded – it could probably do with a bit of thinning out. It’s not like there’s an easy prize here for an opportunistic entrepreneur.
And in the third place…it’s not happening now, anyway.
Panic over, everybody. Conspiracy theories back in the box….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/17/bbc-recipes-more-than-60000-sign-petition-against-closure-plans/
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Let’s hope it wasn’t because the beef recipes might have offended our Hindu citizens
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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/17/bbc-climbdown-over-online-recipes-after-public-outcry?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=172714&subid=8440029&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/17/cuts-bbc-recipe-website-final-straw?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=172714&subid=8440029&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
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Anyone can set up a recipe website. It’s a simple enough task for any competent web developer. That’s precisely why it’s not something that the BBC should be wasting public money on.
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Yes, Mark Goodge, as a more than competent web developer I could put a recipe site together fairly quickly, though it would be pretty useless without the recipes to load into the database.
The BBC has invested in thousands of them, perhaps that’s worth spending money on, whether you think that’s a waste or not is up to you, but I think it’s a waste not to utilise a resource that has been built up at the licence fee payers expense.
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i just went online to save all of my favourite recipes from the BBC site and found they were actually on BBC Good Food Magazine which is an entirely separate website and not being closed down.
I think it’s a shame this happening – there is a public service in being able to look up a recipe used on the telly – but the internet is awash with great recipes.
My niggle is that most recipes on the net are in US english – we’ve gone metric and don’t use “cups” to measure – and we dont have access to half the US ingredients.
It isn’t just hosting costs – it is a massive database that needs to be maintained on a daily basis, using resources – each article needs to be written and tagged.
Still think it’s a shame – perhaps more of an ideological cut.
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Well it’s in line with their policy of let’s keep making the rich richer – vested interest decisions.
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Ken Penethbysaid:May 18, 2016 at 12:32 am
Let’s hope it wasn’t because the beef recipes might have offended our Hindu citizen
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First they came for the Muslims, and ….
Then they came for the Hindus ….,
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If you’re going to start a new a conspiracy theory then you really ought to make it about something a bit more interesting than a recipe web site! Here’s a suggestion…. How about one where the world is controlled by alien lizards?
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:@ LIZA
One can but assume that you didn’t read, or bother to read, this rather good entry:
Michael Snelgrovesaid:May 17, 2016 at 8:22 pm
This is what they do. Chip away at little things, everybody gets bored, suddenly BBC sold off to their billionaire chums ‘cos ‘nobody wants it.’/ [was paying attention]
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@aaagreenman – I ignored the entry because the author seemed to think who “THEY” are was irrelevant and so not worth mentioning. Did he mean the Tories, the BBC, the ‘Establishment’, Rupert Murdoch?…… or maybe alien lizards!
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Add this to the list http://goodfood.kitchen seems to have also taken advantage of the of the pending vacuum with another recipe food website.
I don’t always agree with the BBC and have felt that we are paying too much for a TV license that we have no say in where the money is spent. I don’t particular want my money spent on BBC pursuits of interest that are broadly covered by other websites equally or much better, and would rather it utilized for their TV programming and the news.
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