Comments on: Google News Vindicates Conspiracy Theorists: To (Re)Publish and Host News!

By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:23:30 +0000

As a reader I hope the result is that newspapers move away from relying so heavily on wire service stories and start putting more effort into reporting local, unique news.

It pains me to pick up a copy of the San Mateo Journal and then the San Francisco Examiner and then the San Francisco Chronicle and see the exact same AP stories – even to the point where the comic strips are the same. This is a big reason why I rarely pick up any of the above three – the majority of the articles are a complete waste of time.

So I hope the end result is that papers rely less on wires – but I have the cynical feeling the short term will be the opposite – more complaining about how Google is destroying newspapers.

By: Steve Boriss

Steve Boriss — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:51:54 +0000

See my post “Google deal uncovers truth that AP is now a competitor to newspapers, and papers are suckers for being members of it”
at TheFutureOfNews.com
(Steve Boriss)

By: Google and the wires torpedo newspapers » mathewingram.com/media

Google and the wires torpedo newspapers » mathewingram.com/media — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:34:05 +0000

[...] the newspaper business has to go back to the future. Elsewhere, Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests says this puts the lie to Google’s repeated protests that it doesn’t compete with [...]

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:08:52 +0000

Nice insight. The big question now is how do newspapers maintain their Web sites as destinations if their content is being aggregated elsewhere – be it on Google News, Pageflakes, etc.?

By: Google and the wires torpedo newspapers » mathewingram.com/work

Google and the wires torpedo newspapers » mathewingram.com/work — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:37:32 +0000

[...] thinks that the newspaper business has to go back to the future, Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests says this puts the lie to Google’s repeated protests that it doesn’t compete with [...]

By: Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:19:25 +0000

I was a little more blunt in my post where I basically stated that the newspapers have lost both the battle and the war anf that google in now the world’s largest newspaper