Archive for the “Google News” category

Wait, wait, wait. Google News Makes *HOW* Much Money?

by Tony Hung on July 26, 2008

Somewhere in the cacophony of the usual stuff on TechmemeCrunchFeed this past week, I missed this interesting nugget of news: Google News makes money.  Lots of it.  To the tune of $100 million fungolas. Now, when I heard about this, (…)

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Jimmy Wales Fiasco A Missed Opportunity For Google News

by Tony Hung on March 6, 2008

A few days ago, you may have heard about the whole Jimmy Wales / Wikipedia fiasco — its hard to believe that you didn’t as it hit a lot of major mainstream media outlets.  The substance of the fiasco (if (…)

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Google News 2.0 … Leveling The Field For New Media “Orphans”?

by Tony Hung on February 21, 2008

Not that Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia is anything *remotely* like a New Media Orphan (in fact, one could say he is a new media ‘godfather’, in some respects), but interesting rejoinder *by* Mr. Sanger on Google News, with respect (…)

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I Love Techmeme, But …

by Tony Hung on February 17, 2008

Update: My faith in Techmeme comes through — Techmeme finally gets it right.  Yay! {albeit more than 24h after the original Reuters article was pushed out} To be honest, Blogrunner seems to have the same “problem”. But for my money, (…)

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Google News Comments — Four Months Later, Still Kicking, Dramatically Under-Promoted

by Tony Hung on December 26, 2007

So four months after I unbashedly proclaimed that Google News would change the world as we know it (or something like that), the New York Times has done a bit of a pseudo-update on how things have done in the (…)

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

by Tony Hung on September 2, 2007

Earlier this year, when Sam Zell bought the Tribune for around $8 billion dollars, he brought attention to Google News at the time, alluding to how it was ripping of traditional news media — and wondering out loud whether or (…)

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Speaking Of Calming Down …

by Tony Hung on August 9, 2007

So Google News Comments is probably less than a few days old, and I’ve extrapolated how this humble comment system might be the next best thing since sliced bread because of the way that Google is doing it.  Yes, not (…)

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