To acknowledge the popularity and large fan-base enjoyed by online user-derived dictionary/encyclopedia Wikipedia, Google News is now including it among the stable of publications its bots crawl to generate the site. While Wikipedia’s articles have long appeared among Google search results, now when you perform a search specific to Google News, some of the returned [...]
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Google News Now Trawling Wikipedia
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Publishers V.S. Google
Friday, April 10th, 2009It all boils down to who is going to make the money, publishers or Google. With technology changing the news industry, publishers are now at odds with Google, and want a piece of the profits Google is receiving from its online news distribution. Newspapers are citing unfair use of content. A major point in question [...]
Read MoreGoogle-Yahoo advertising deal creates stir
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) posted on Monday a detailed communiqué regarding its position against the potential advertising partnership between online giants Google and Yahoo. Feelings about the partnership remain strong on both sides of the issue. No matter which side you are on, neither can argue the newsworthiness of the debate. The picture [...]
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