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Newspapers ignore Google at their peril

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

An editorial about Google in the Los Angeles Times has caused quite a kerfuffle (or perhaps a brouhaha) in the blogosphere — in part because the editorial said that for some newspapers, the search engine and its Google News aggregator are as bad as Osama bin Laden.

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  • Tish Grier

    1 year ago

    neither kerfuffle, nor brouhaha....more like tempest-in-a-teapot...it must've been a slow news day for so many folks to get their knickers in a bunch over this.

    What the LATimes said was pretty much what went around the blogosphere about the whole GoogleNews comments thing anyway...except maybe for the Bin Laden thing. That sounded more like an inside joke that originated at some conference, got published on somebody's blog, and then everybody said "well, it was funny at the time..."
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  • Steven Noble

    1 year ago

    Has anyone seen any examples of a commented on google news story? Is there a way to aggregate for stories that have comments.
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  • Mathew

    1 year ago

    I agree Tish.

    And Steven, I still haven't seen a story with comments on it -- I looked for one of the ones that appeared in screenshots when the feature was first announced but couldn't find it.
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  • chartreuse

    1 year ago

    It's not going away. I think it's a great idea.

    The real reason for Newspapers continued sharp decline is the fact that they have no idea how to leverage a community. The News, which was once scarce is now abundant. That means that newspapers need to shift from being general content creators to context creators.
    Unfortunately, google beat them to it.
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