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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 368 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google Other
Greg Jarboe says Google messed up in announcing how it would host AP and other wire stories, saying it should have figured there'd be a big outcry and people should be around to deal with it. Me, I think the "outcry" was overblown.
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from dannysullivan 368 days ago #
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First of all, the AP itself knew this was happening. If there’s a PR problem for AP member publications about to lose traffic from Google, the AP itself cut that deal. And they cut it over a year ago, as my article explained:

http://searchengineland.com/070831-130842.php

The writing was on the wall then – a year later, member publications were surprised? And surprised when Google did the same thing that Yahoo has done for years?

In fact, the semi-explosion of semi-criticism that hit the blogosphere (and how passed) singled out Google as going after newspapers when its Yahoo News that still gets much more traffic that Google News, yet I don’t remember any “the sky is falling” posts about Yahoo wiping out papers, over the years.

Frankly, it’s kind of hard to know what Google is supposed to do to please everyone. I mean, the AFP actually sued them and the AP threatened to do so because they were linking to articles on sites that the AFP and the AP apparently couldn’t get to block. I mean AFP, don’t want your members to have their AFP articles showing in Google News? There’s this little thing called the meta robots tag you might insist they use.

Indeed, after the AFP did its suit, Google did go and block a lot of content, which got AFP member publications mad at the AFP.

from bwelford 368 days ago #
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Nevertheless it's now the 800 lb. gorilla that gets those associated advertising revenues. I guess we've got to learn to live with that more and more.

from gregjarboe 368 days ago #
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Google could have announced the deal at the beginning of a work week instead of the Friday before a 3-day holiday. Then, they would have been in a better position to deal with the semi-explosion of semi-criticism -- a lot of which was directed at AP, not Google. And, yes, it's hard to be Google. But, with a market cap of $160.83 billion, that comes with the territory.

from dalka 368 days ago #
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I think the bigger issue is that the original source of this story itself, a Google News blog entry, is not in Google News.

http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/09/02/new-york-times-should-link-to-original-stories-from-the-source/


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