google, newspapers vs. news aggregators

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.

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

Wed, 12/02/2009 - 6:57pm — senh

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

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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.

AP's Curley Has Fightin' Words For Google

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

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Google Unveils News-by-Topic Service

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

Google to limit free news access

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

AP's Curley Has Fightin' Words For Google