Google — publisher of, well, everything
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Google now wants to include articles published during the past 244 years, “hoping the added attraction will lure even more traffic to its leading Internet search engine,” says FinancialNewsUSA.
Google will, “foot the bill to copy the archives of any newspaper publisher willing to permit the stories to be shown for free on Google’s Web site,” says the story.
Isn’t that generous?
Publishers taking part will get an unspecified share of revenue from ads displayed next to the stories, it says, adding:
“Google is touting the program as a way to give people an easier way to find a rich vein of history.”
The veins will, in fact, be arteries, and they’ll be pumping cash straight into Google’s coffers.
“The initiative also is designed to provide a financial boost to newspaper publishers as they try to offset declining revenue from print editions that are losing readers and advertisers to online news sources.”
FinancialNewsUSA – Google copying, storing more stories fit for print, September 9, 2008
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September 9th, 2008 at 11:10 am
240 years? Thats incredible
September 9th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Seems like a big mistake to me. They could have started with State vital records to put them in direct competition with Ancestry.com and their database suppliers. Those records are truly difficult to access, even in the Information Age, and even though they are publicly available. But instead they’re going after copyrighted materials like books and newspapers? Those can be seen at any local library, which is where you will find me if I’m looking for books and newspapers.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Library archives aren’t searchable. And why re-invent Ancestry.com’s wheel?
If all I have to do to access an article I want is to accept an ad that probably won’t even read, then it sounds like a winner to me.
I win, the newspaper publisher wins, and Google wins. Wins big, I hope.