Paywalls
Media, news in particular, goes paywalls in 2010: media businesses need to try something new; http://j.mp/paywalls
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Gerrit Eicker
Schmidt vs. Murdoch
Schmidt: We send news publishers 1 billion clicks a month from Google News, 3 billion from search; http://j.mp/5gkDCN
Gerrit Eicker
Media Goes Bing vs. Google
Will we really see a Bing-News Corporation deal? A wider boycott of Google? An Opec for news? http://j.mp/7mCuli
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Gerrit Eicker
TC: “Rupert Murdoch is pointing a gun to Google’s head, and Microsoft is helping him pull back the trigger. For the past few weeks, Murdoch and his officers at News Corp. have been very vocal about their distaste for Google and their desire to lead other media companies in a boycott of sorts. – Murdoch keeps threatening to stop letting Google index the WSJ.com and his other media sites, and wants other news sites to join him in this self-imposed silence. … In order to actually make a dent in Google’s market share, Bing would have to pay such exorbitant sums to so many different news companies that it would be difficult to recoup its investment. Bing certainly get some marketing buzz out of any such move, but that’s about it. – The big problem with a search engine trying to buy market share by buying parts of the news is that information spreads so quickly these days, exclusives last about 30 seconds.”
SEL: “Lastly (for now, I may update other thoughts later), I think it’s a really poor move for Microsoft to be trying to strike exclusive deals like this. It’s one thing to license content. It’s another to apparently overtly suggest that a competitor be denied that content. – Microsoft has a bad anti-competitive reputation. It’s also in the middle of trying to convince regulators both in the US and Europe that it should be allowed to purchase Yahoo’s search technology and effectively end Yahoo’s role as a search provider, leaving the space to just Google and Microsoft. – So a deal to lockout Google? You can bet Google will use this to argue to anyone and everyone that Microsoft is back to ‘old tricks.’”
FAZ: “Die große Frage ist allerdings, ob Microsoft den Verlagen soviel Geld zahlen kann, um den Einbruch ihrer Werbeeinnahmen zu kompensieren, den das Aussperren von Google zur Folge hätte. ‘Microsoft ist kein Monopolist mehr. Sie können nicht die Bank der Verleger sein’, zitiert Bloggerin Kara Swisher eine mit den Verhandlungen vertraute Person. ‘Auch wenn es großes gegenseitiges Interesse gibt, ist es zweifelhaft, dass Microsoft eine ‘Miete’ für Inhalte zahlt, die das Unternehmen nicht besitzt’, sagte die Person weiter.”
Gerrit Eicker
Murdoch and Google
AdAge: Why News Corporation and Murdoch will not quit Google; http://j.mp/4v9pqg
Gerrit Eicker
Murdoch vs. Google
Miller, CDO of News Corporation, said the media mogul was ready to block Google from his sites soon; http://j.mp/35rmKv
Gerrit Eicker
How Google Works
Sullivan: Would someone please explain to News Corporation how Google works? http://j.mp/cjfbc
Gerrit Eicker
Google vs. Murdoch
Google responds to Murdoch like they did before: If they tell us not to include [content], we do not; http://j.mp/3LgU1w
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Gerrit Eicker
Telegraph: “A spokesman for the search giant said: ‘Google News and web search are a tremendous source of promotion for news organisations, sending them about 100,000 clicks every minute. – Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don’t.‘”
Hitwise: “Rupert Murdoch made an interesting statement in a Sky News interview today, when asked about news content available through search engines such as Google, Murdoch says he would consider blocking Google from indexing News Corp.’s news websites such as the Wall Street Journal. Of course it would naturally follow that I would immediately chart the amount of traffic that Google drives to Murdoch’s flagship news site. … In fact, on a weekly basis Google and Google news are the top traffic providers for WSJ.com account for over 25% of WSJ.com’s traffic. Even more telling. According to Experian Hitwise data, over 44% of WSJ.com visitors coming from Google are “new” users who haven’t visited the domain in the last 30 days.”
SEL: “Google is referring, of course, to using robots.txt or a similar protocol to keep content from being indexed. Danny Sullivan wondered aloud why Google’s critics in journalism weren’t already doing that, especially after the Wall Street Journal recently accused Google of ‘encouraging promiscuity’ online by allowing searchers to bounce from one news site to the next with no loyalty. Danny also sat down recently with Google CEO Eric Schmidt for a lengthy conversation about Google and journalism. – The debate/battle is far from over. The question now, at least where Google and Murdoch are concerned is: Who’ll blink first?“
Gerrit Eicker
News Corporation to Block Google
Murdoch: News Corporation will probably remove its sites from the Google index; http://j.mp/3PhND7 (via @jayzon277)
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Gerrit Eicker
Mashable: “Mr. Murdoch is not ready to accept any of the changes brought forth by the Internet and the social media movement. Moreover, he doesn’t seem to understand how some parts of it work. He’s got the manpower to announce a war, but I’m afraid his army will be fighting windmills.“
Gerrit Eicker
WSJ: Biggest Paper
The Wall Street Journal has overtaken USA Today for the title of biggest paper in the USA; http://j.mp/pRs3D
Schmidt: “With dwindling revenue and diminished resources, frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame. Much of their anger is currently directed at Google, whom many executives view as getting all the benefit from the business relationship without giving much in return. The facts, I believe, suggest otherwise. – Google is a great source of promotion. We send online news publishers a billion clicks a month from Google News and more than three billion extra visits from our other services, such as Web Search and iGoogle. That is 100,000 opportunities a minute to win loyal readers and generate revenue – for free. In terms of copyright, another bone of contention, we only show a headline and a couple of lines from each story. If readers want to read on they have to click through to the newspaper’s Web site. (The exception are stories we host through a licensing agreement with news services.) And if they wish, publishers can remove their content from our search index, or from Google News. – I certainly don’t believe that the Internet will mean the death of news. Through innovation and technology, it can endure with newfound profitability and vitality. Video didn’t kill the radio star. It created a whole new additional industry.”
TC: “Not even Google can save much of the dying print newspaper business, but it can help them build up their digital revenues. And that’s the subtext of Google’s message to newspaper publishers: Don’t shoot the gift horse that feeds you. (To mangle three well-worn phrases together). Those 4 billion clicks a month are a gift. While they might not add up to expense-account lunches all around at Per Se, they are nourishment nonetheless.”