Comments on: French publishers vs Google: ‘You are becoming our worst enemy’

By: Neil Adams

Neil Adams — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:47:55 +0000

I also can’t see why the newspapers would be annoyed with Google, maybe I’m missing something.

By: Google’s Eric Schmidt on saving newspapers | Dave Lee / jBlog

Google’s Eric Schmidt on saving newspapers | Dave Lee / jBlog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:30:53 +0000

[...] logic like that which makes me wonder why so many French papers are annoyed at Google for linking to them on Google News. Google gives them traffic. For free. Why [...]

By: Laura Oliver

Laura Oliver — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:33:59 +0000

Gah – sorry Damien – duly amended. Great vid though.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:13:29 +0000

They say that ‘content is king’ and ‘distribution is king kong’. Google now dominate access to free content on the web but it is the Newspapers who have placed their most prized asset (content) up there on the web for free. Newspapers like the Wall Street Journal and the Australian Financial Review are showing that people will pay online subscriptions for news, analysis and tools of value. In fact, the only thing stopping newspapers from going vertical with their business models is themselves. Fairfax’s purchase of Trade Me in New Zealand takes the company beyond the classified and into the transaction as the exchange and broker – that should be a warning to eBay and Amazon!

By: damien

damien — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:34:58 +0000

Hi,
My name is Damien Van Achter (not Adrian vanachter)