Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It?

TechCrunch by Duncan Riley | May. 21, 2007 (News Report)

Scotland's Sunday Herald is running a story reporting that Google has secretly reached deals with several large UK news groups to formally license content for Google News.

The report notes that the deals are being kept secret to prevent other media sites asking for a similar deal from Google.

I've always bought Google's defense that Google News drives traffic to other news sites and that linking to external headlines and providing a ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - May 21, 2007 - 2:22 PM PDT
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An important issue but not clearly defined in the article. A lot of the comments on the site helped put perspective on it and point out how important the topic is.

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