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Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse
Dupple writes "In light of the recent story regarding Google threatening a French media ban after France proposed that search engines should pay for content, it seems a similar thing is happening in Brazil, with numerous papers leaving Google News. The controversy fueled one of the most intense debates during the Inter American Press Association's 68th General Assembly, which took place from Oct. 12 to 16 in São Paulo. On one side of the debate were defenders of news companies' authoring rights, like German attorney Felix Stang, who said, 'platforms like Google's compete directly with newspapers and magazines because they work like home pages and use content from them.' On the other, Google representatives said their platform provides a way to make journalistic content available to more people. According to Marcel Leonardi, the company's public policies director, Google News channels a billion clicks to news sites around the world."
Yep. Google doesn't show the entire article, they show enough content to drive viewers to the article. It's up to the individual sites to retain those visitors, not Google.
Newspapers should be paying Google for the service of indexing and driving customers to them.
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
Why don't they just put headlines and first paragraphs on one page....
Have you actually *been* to news.google.com ??? Didn't think so.
Google News is nothing more than an aggregator for news sites. They provide headline and first sentence and a link to the actual news site.
What the news sites are bitching about is people go to google to look at what is happening instead of their main pages. News sites provide the food but they don't make the menu anymore and that is the problem.
They should start paying website owners and creators too. If we didn't make websites, they would have nothing to link in their main search either. It is not like there is some mutual relationship that benefits both otherwise...
Or have you never been on there?
NO ADVERTS.
Google *Search* has adverts. Google *News* doesn't.
So shutting down Google News will not lose ANY clicking on placed ads.
Idiot.