Newspapers Want Share of Search Engine Success
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006;
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A group of newspaper publishers say they have had enough of watching the search engines soar to success thanks in part to the content they publish.
According to CNet, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) intends to “challenge the exploitation of content” by the Googles and MSNs of the Web.
The Paris-based group, which represents 18,000 newspapers, isn’t discussing what action it may take. WAN executives said in a statement that they want to explore their options and added that they understand search engines help them in one way: aggregating content and packaging it for consumers. But WAN noted that Web companies also “built their business models in large part on taking content for free.”
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February 1st, 2006 at 9:57 am
If I was in the print industry, I would tread very lightly on this subject. No longer are they the number 1 source for everyones news. With a large amount of these 18,000 newspapers carrying similar articles, they would be the ones hurt in a Google action. This discussion is about 8 years too late.
March 7th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
mikeOK +1 “)