Newspapers Declare War On Google
A global newspaper association has launched a massive lobbying campaign to convince governments to CRACK DOWN on Google. The Paris-based World Association of Newspapers is whining to the European Union and other governments that Google is profiting from the use of newspaper headlines, photos and sometimes the first few lines of newspaper stories without compensating the newspapers that content comes from. Google profits, they say, from the sale of advertising on the Google News site, which aggregates content and links to original news stories.
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Google cites their sources, links directly to the articles, and displays no ads on the Google News homepage... now why are they complaining?
And probably gives the sites that come up a helluva lot more traffic than they'd get NOT featured on google news... meanwhile the link sources seem pretty spread out and random.
Just like the china censorship thing - this is a silly reason to go after google for.
http://news.google.com/
I see no ads.
I only see headlines and links to the respective newspapers' websites.
I just think these people are envious or something. I assume it would not be hard for newspapers who do not want to be on Google to just contact them and request to not have their content shown. But then again, they will probably change their minds once they see their website traffic plummit.
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Pardon? What language was that? I'm guessing this blog is inactive though... I won't expect an answer.
It's Portuguese, and he saying something along the lines of "Blogs let me go to sites that focus on people or things that I care about."
Uh, this blog is very active...
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