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Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 5:01pm on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Are news aggregators like Google winning over readers from newspaper web sites?

Editor & Publisher reported on January 19, 2010:

"Aggregator sites -- especially Google -- really are hurting newspapers as more people increasingly simply skim the news headlines without bothering to click to linked newspaper Web sites, a new report finds.

This alarming trend for newspapers is occurring as more people are getting their news online and through aggregators, according to the report from Outsell Research. In fact, just as many people turn to aggregators to get news first thing in the day as people who crack open a newspaper.

The “News Users 2009” study conducted by Outsell Research affiliate analyst Ken Doctor found that 19% of people accessed Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL News for news in 2009, up from 10% in 2006. For newspapers, 19% of those polled went there first, a drop from 23% in 2006."

The full story:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004060171

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 9:41am on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Google News Pulls AP Content As Contract Renewal Looms

Techcrunch.com reported on January 11, 2010:

"Through much of last year, the Associated Press threw public barbs and veiled threats at Google, while in private it was renegotiating its licensing agreement with Google News. That agreement is believed to be up for renewal at the end of this month, yet no new AP stories have appeared directly on Google News since December 23, 2009. (AP stories licensed by other news sites such as ABC News or the New York Times do continue to appear, however). So what’s going on here? Is that the end of AP stories on Google News?

I’ve been doing some sniffing around, and it is not the AP that is withholding its content. This conclusion is also supported by the fact that older AP content from before Christmas continues to be available on Google News. If the AP were no longer licensing its articles to Google, those older articles likely would also no longer be available. (The AP has talked about withholding news from certain licensees for a set period of time, but those were measured in minutes and hours, not weeks, and it would operate on a rolling basis. The AP stories on Google News just stop on December 23).

So it appears that Google made a unilateral decision."

The full story:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/11/google-news-pulls-ap/

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 7:24am on Monday, December 14th, 2009

Google Inc. plans to begin selling a cellphone directly to consumers as soon as next year, the Wall Street Journal reported on December 14, 2009:

"The phone, called Nexus One, was designed inside Google and will be sold, at least initially, without being subsidized by a wireless partner, these people said

It is the latest sign of the Internet giant's ever-broadening wireless ambitions as Google hunts for ways to expand its Internet services beyond computers."

The full story:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703757404574592530591075444.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 7:55am on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Google will update search results by the second using sites like Twitter and Facebook, the New York Times reported on December 7, 2009:

"Previously it took a few minutes for updates from social networks and blogs to filter into Google’s results.

“Clearly in today’s world, that’s not fast enough,” Amit Singhal, a Google fellow, said. “Information is being posted at a pace we’ve never seen before, and in this environment, seconds matter.”

The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/technology/companies/08google.html