Google Finally Hosting News On Its Site: Will Newspapers Get Pissed Off At AP Now?
from the ah,-the-shifting-marketplace dept
Earlier this month, we noted that it had been a year since Google had done a deal with the Associated press and there appeared to be nothing to show for it. That led to speculation that the deal really had nothing to do with with some new "news" product, and it was really about paying off the AP so it didn't sue Google for linking to AP stories (the way some other news organizations had done). That seemed strange because it was quite difficult to see what the Associated Press or anyone else had to argue about if Google News was providing their news partners more traffic. However, the snickering over a lack of any real project seems to have kicked Google into action, and they've just announced that they're going to start hosting news content on their own site from the AP and a few other news organizations the company has done deals with. Amusingly, I was unable to find the AP version of this story hosted on Google itself, but did find the Canadian Press version. There don't appear to be any advertisements on the Google hosted version, but there are links to "related news" -- which makes a lot of sense. Of course, if I were a publisher partner of the Associated Press, I'd actually be really upset by this deal -- but directed at the Associated Press, rather than at Google. This deal is likely to lower traffic to other sites that republish AP reports. So all those partners get no benefit from the deal and actually lose out on traffic. If there are newspapers who want to get upset about Google News, they should get upset at the AP for basically giving a bunch of their traffic directly to Google.
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They should have thought of that...
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Example.
Google broadens access to agency news
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Re: Example.
Wasn't looking for an example, but the specific AP version of the story... In the post I have a link to the CP version hosted at Google. Yours is the AFP version. Still can't find the AP version...
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Google Begins Hosting News on Its Site
ap.google.com's robots.txt disallows everything, sooo... no real luck searching it.
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maybe they'll stop their sniveling now
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That's two in one day...
Gotta love it.
EtG
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Re: That's two in one day...
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round one... FIGHT!!!
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The internet as the great equalizer
All of these are filters to what you see and hear. These corporations can influence how you feel about issues by NOT making certain news and information available to you. They can also ruin a person very quickly if they so desire.
That is very much power for one entity to have, I would say too much power.
I used to trust CNN, but recently I saw a piece that conveniently left out some information that could be seen as politically expedient to leave out. It exposed their political bias and now I don't trust what they report. Too much power concentrated under one roof.
For now this is good, but now are the people at Google becoming the filter? We should watch carefully what they do with this power.
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The wrath of Google
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About Google Nesw
Is it not possible for Google and other information corporations to offer more direct support to schools of journalism to help ensure that this craft's values and skills are passed on to the next generation? It is also worrying that in future Google news searches turn up not news, but crazy ravings from basement bloggers, fake news reports from government officials.
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--Glenn
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