Google CEO Offers Advice to Newspaper Industry

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Google’s CEO is out there today offering comfort and advice to ailing newspapers around the country today. I’m not sure they really want his advice but at least he’s not suggesting they break up companies that are “too big to fail” again (here).

Schmidt said Google, which has been criticized by some US newspaper owners for linking to their websites without sharing advertising revenue, focuses on the user experience and newspapers need to do the same.
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Seems a little ...weird. Can't really think of the right word. lol.
 
nicer then I would have been. google is not at fault for weak not adapting
 
i must say though most other sites get there content from newspaper sites or the associated press. if the newspapers stopped giving this stuff out for free then a lot of these sites including google wouldnt be able to do it.
 
Valset said:
nicer then I would have been. google is not at fault for weak not adapting
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We'll be at the point where all you get is USA Today in a few years anyway. All the news will come from one corporate agregator of content produced by one corporate news mill.

The rest will be blogs run by yammering monkeys.

I like how google gets a free lunch. They present others content, sell ads to pay for the service and then stiff those who actually produce the content. That is an awesome business model.
 
I read this story on the BBC site earlier and it made me chuckle. It seems like the news industry (like the music industry) is starting to realise they can't keep flogging the same business model and expect to survive the next decade. I, for one, am glad.
 
ianken said:
I like how google gets a free lunch. They present others content, sell ads to pay for the service and then stiff those who actually produce the content. That is an awesome business model.
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Actually they are not stiffing them in any way. They don't present other's content. They link to the publisher's site where the publisher has their own ad space.

The publisher gets to make their money on ads just like google does. If anything google is acting like a middle man getting more people to publishers sites.
 
ianken said:
We'll be at the point where all you get is USA Today in a few years anyway. All the news will come from one corporate agregator of content produced by one corporate news mill.
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You sure about that? I'm sure the US Government at this point would love to control the media, too.

ianken said:
I like how google gets a free lunch. They present others content, sell ads to pay for the service and then stiff those who actually produce the content. That is an awesome business model.
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I'd tend to agree. But you've still got to rely upon media outlets to gather that information in the first place. It's just instead of going back to the office and printing a paper, they need to go back to the office and post it online.
 
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