Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Google taking on the world

A Fair amount of debate in cyberspace over the announcement at the end of last week that Google's news site will become the publisher for 4 international news agencies.

For those that missed it,Press Association, Associated Press, Canadian Press and Agence France-Presse will allow Google to scan their news stories and omit those that are duplicated versions from the news agencies that other sites host.

The initial reaction is the worry that Google is taking over the world ,as always,and that it may be the first step to Google actually putting news on its own site .

A good post from Ryan Sholin who gives three reasons why this is a good move.

And from Steve Borris who says

perhaps a bigger obstacle to Google News is that people simply don’t live their lives consulting search engines every time they need to make a decision


Steve,I belive is correct because people like to go to the original site and this additional platform can only give further exposure to original journalists copy.

Update Media Guardian 10th Sept from Jeff Jarvis

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