Snubbing Google Won’t Line Most Newspapers’ Pockets
Posted: December 05, 2009
By: ecommercetimes.com
Some news publishers — Rupert Murdoch in particular — don’t care for the way in which Google News displays some of their content through its own site, in turn profiting from their work. The traffic Google gives these sites, though, is nothing to sneeze at. Though Murdoch has publicly toyed with the idea of giving Google the cold shoulder completely, it’s not a path to profit for most publications.
There’s an intriguing idea floating around the media: Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) wants to undercut Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) so badly in Internet search that it might pay newspapers to withhold their content from Google…..[read entire story]
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