Bloomberg: Google Loses Copyright Appeal Over Internet Links to Belgian Newspapers
Monday, 9 May 2011, 19:53
"The Court of Appeal in Brussels on May 5 upheld a 2007 lower court ruling that forced Google to remove links and snippets of articles from French- and German-language Belgian newspapers from Google.com and Google.be."
The Australian: We didn’t kill newspapers, says Google
Thursday, 6 January 2011, 16:41
Times interview with Google News creator Krishna Bharat. On unbundling, he says: "Classifieds vanished long before we existed .. We didn't cause this. The fact is news is online for free, monetised by ads."
Beehive City: Beehive Times – Beehive City News
Monday, 1 November 2010, 14:26
Dan Sabbagh moves to the Guardian to run media and tech, and shows off his site Beehive City's traffic figures: "[T]raffic these days is running at comfortably over 300,000 uniques a month. Which we think is not bad at all … It takes little time at all to create a new media news site – the only initial barrier to entry is to be listed on Google News. Once you’re there, you find that readers are not fussy, barely distinguishing between ‘proper’ newspapers and other news sites – they just follow the links that interest them to get the news/info they want. So when Beehive has had a scoop it has gone round the country, even around the world"
paidContent:UK: Google Hires BBC News Exec To Woo Publishers
Tuesday, 17 August 2010, 10:45
"Google is hiring BBC News’ head of development and rights, Madhav Chinnappa, to its partnerships team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, it tells paidContent:UK, 'with a specific focus on helping publishers get the most out of Google News'"
paidContent: Human (!) Editors Start Creeping Into Google News
Sunday, 13 June 2010, 09:50
"Google is asking select publications to suggest stories which are then promoted as “editors’ picks” on the front page of Google News. The move, which Google describes as a “test,” is similar in some ways to the “curators of the month” program on YouTube, which features video playlists made by either individuals or publications."
Search Engine Land: Google Testing New Google News Home Page (With Sharing Options)
Sunday, 13 June 2010, 09:49
"Each story has the same “star” option that you find on the regular Google News. But there’s a new dropdown menu with several sharing options: Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Google Reader, and e-mail."
The Atlantic: How to Save the News
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 09:30
James Fallows: "after talking during the past year with engineers and strategists at Google and recently interviewing some of their counterparts inside the news industry, I am convinced that there is a larger vision for news coming out of Google; that it is not simply a charity effort to buy off critics; and that it has been pushed hard enough by people at the top of the company, especially Schmidt, to become an internalized part of the culture in what is arguably the world’s most important media organization."
Google News Blog: Bringing Living Stories to WordPress
Sunday, 2 May 2010, 12:08
"For the last few months we’ve been talking with publishers about ways to make it easier for them to use Living Stories, our experimental format for displaying news coverage, on their own websites. Today we’re releasing a Living Stories plugin and theme for WordPress. Now anyone who publishes through WordPress can use the plugin to organize coverage of an ongoing event on a single dynamic page."
Bloomberg: Financial Times Online Chief Sees Drawbacks From Google News
Saturday, 17 April 2010, 10:00
"The Financial Times’s online chief [Rob Grimshaw] said users are seven times less likely to subscribe to the Web edition when they arrive via Google News pages, compared with Google’s regular search page."
Chris Dixon: News is a lousy business for Google too
Monday, 8 March 2010, 18:02
"… because their real business is selling ads on queries where the user likely has purchasing intent. Big money-making categories include travel, consumer electronics and malpractice lawyers. News queries are loss leaders."
BuzzMachine: Helping news be news
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 23:38
"Google News has just open-sourced its code to create what it calls Living Stories. What this really is, I think, is Google’s attempt to take editors to school on content presentation in our new world. The article, I’ve argued, is outmoded as the building block of news. The new atomic unit(s) of journalism needs to reflect the transition of news from a product to a process."
paidContent:UK: Google Tightens FT.com’s Free-Article Loophole
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 22:43
"[FT.com is] planning a Q2 switch-on for the [Google First Click Free] modification, which will instead limit the number of paywalled articles searchers can read freely to five in any day."
Econsultancy: What a lot of rubbish everyone is talking about Google and paywalls
Thursday, 3 December 2009, 12:02
Malcolm Coles on the rubbish reporting on the First Click Free yesterday: "The biggest load of old rubbish ever has been written about the changes to Google's first click free program. Here's a round up of who understands what they are talking about (and might survive with a paywall) and who hasn't got a clue…"
John Battelle’s Searchblog: What Are The Conversion Rates for Google’s “First Click Free”?
Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 09:33
"I'd guess it's a pretty low percentage of folks who actively try to get the Wall Street Journal by repeatedly searching on Google. The really interesting question is this: Does 'First Click Free' actually deliver a decent conversion of paid customers to media companies?"
