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Google Unveils News-by-Topic Service

The new service presents news online by topic and was developed in collaboration with The New York Times and The Washington Post.

 

Drive-by Traffic, They Say It Like It's a Bad Thing

Drive-by Traffic, They Say It Like It's a Bad Thing

Rupert Murdoch, and a couple of his fellow newspaper-owners, say that traffic coming from search engines and aggregation sites are worthless. They call it "drive-by traffic." These users only come, read one article and then leave. For an industry profusely bleeding users and revenue, you would think they wouldn't be so discriminatory when it comes to users consuming their content.

 

Google to limit free news access

Google to limit free news access

Google will let newspaper publishers limit the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.

 

Don't bet newspapers will get rich shunning Google

There's an intriguing idea floating around the media: Microsoft Corp. wants to undercut Google so badly in Internet search that it might pay newspapers to withhold their content from Google....

 

Twitter urges Murdoch to be open

Newspapers should become "radically open" if they want to make money in the online world, the co-founder of Twitter says.

 

If The WSJ.com Says Goodbye To Google, It Will Also Say Goodbye To 25 Percent Of Its Traffic

If The WSJ.com Says Goodbye To Google, It Will Also Say Goodbye To 25 Percent Of Its Traffic

Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press (usually his own outlets) that he might not say in the U.S. Of course, everyone in the U.S. picks up on it and it becomes a big story, as it did today after Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving searchers full access to articles on the Wall Street Journal's website, WSJ.com.

 

Media Loves Twitter This Much: $48 Million A Month At Least

Media Loves Twitter This Much: $48 Million A Month At Least

If Twitter needed to pay for the media coverage the company and service gets across the board, it would have spent almost as ...

 

Online news turning 'hyperlocal'

On a recent morning, when many newspapers and news sites were buzzing about swine flu, voiceofsandiego.org wrote instead about a local science professor and his quest to understand the beginning of the universe.

 

AP's Curley Has Fightin' Words For Google

AP's Curley Has Fightin' Words For Google

Associated Press Chief Tom Curley threatens a news blackout. Will Google flinch?

 

Christian Science Monitor Publishes Final Daily Issue, Goes Web-Only

As the final daily issue of the 100-year-old Christian Science Monitor was put to bed Thursday, the newspaper was planning its rebirth as a spruced-up weekly. Meanwhile, the Monitor's free Web site will get more frequent updates from dozens of its reporters, who will be expected to quickly post material to the site and take video and gather audio.

 

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