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By: Will Rupert Murdoch be The Savior of The News Industry? | Thoughtpick Blog

Will Rupert Murdoch be The Savior of The News Industry? | Thoughtpick Blog — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:22:35 +0000

[...] the huge amount of traffic Google sends to news sources, which Google estimates to be around 100,000 clicks every minute and the amount of advertising revenue those sites generate as a [...]

By: The Next Web’s Weekly Recap for Friday, November 13th

The Next Web’s Weekly Recap for Friday, November 13th — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:37:47 +0000

[...] Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan was quick to challenge Jason’s idea. Our own Alex also chimed in offering his thoughts in light of Mark Cuban’s post which praised Murdoch’s comments. [...]

By: News Corp Going For Pay – Gone From Google In “months”

News Corp Going For Pay – Gone From Google In “months” — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:26:01 +0000

[...] Once all the news is gone from Google (and eventually Bing, Ask, etc.), we will be forced to watch the news come out in wholly different ways. Mark Cuban thinks that Twitter and Facebook are suitable substitutes for Google News for the masses. I disagree. [...]

By: Holden Page

Holden Page — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:24:31 +0000

He really should talk to my mom about what she thinks about getting breaking news from twitter…

Oh wait.

She doesn’t use Twitter. But guess who uses Google!

Mark Cuban really is smoking, just not sure it is a cigar.

By: Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:24:26 +0000

Confused, how would that change once they move to just monetizing traffic from Twitter? Pulling from search only makes sense if you go all paid, at which point the value of sharing goes to *zero* for non subscribers.

Are we going to have to form groups on Twitter/FB for subscribers of XXXX so that we can actually click on the shared links?

By: Bradley Joyce

Bradley Joyce — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:21:34 +0000

The point is really that search traffic isn’t necessarily valuable traffic to a news destination site with the current paradigm of banner ads. More eyeballs isn’t the solution for these companies. If I get a billion visits from google but that brings me $0… who cares about the traffic?

In addition, once you see one organization take this plunge others will quickly follow and their ability to influence (ie, get $ out of the search engines) will only grow w/ time. You can also imagine other scenarios such as Bing paying $xxMM/year to be the only search engine that can index, for example, News Corp content.

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