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Google's access to index content and free access to information on the Internet

november 18, 2009 | No Comments »

Since last week (and up) is one of the major topics of conversation, news sites and blogs by News Corp - personifiseret in Robert Murdoch - will block that Google indexes all of their newspapers online content (The Times, The Sun, The Sunday Times, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, etc. etc. and their Fox and all its sub-brands).

On the one hand, some journalists and claps his hands above the blade out from the mouth and the fight against the mighty Google will be addressed. On the other hand, network media and taking his head over the old fashioned way of looking at reality. I can refer to Ole Nørskov ( Media Watch ) on the one hand, and Danny Sullivan ( Search Engine Land ) on the other side.

TRAFFIC ON THE INTERNET

The rationale from the news media's side as equal to:

Murdoch says he is not interested in the random traffic. He can see that you can tell the advertisers that there are so many users of the newspaper online but he prefers loyal users who come back to the content they find interesting - and pay for it - rather than randomly wandering users who do not pay for it.

But this premise is wrong. Erick Schonfeld has an article from April 2009 written that Google News, Yahoo News and other aggregatorere not the actual news, but just stand as they are in. And the news media's fear of Google to the same extent transferred to Digg, Delicious, etc. services?

And with the above article from Danny Sullivan, there's no reason to block Google. It's news consumers should be kept out if they do not want to pay - if the industry that is willing and believe in the business model.

Speculation: News Corp. vs. Google

I've seen highlighted that Google in less than one year shall pay the final installment of the record contract with Myspace (News Corp.) on web search from Myspace - see TechCrunch May 2009 . But it is not abundant conspiratorial thinking that these things should be mixed together? MySpace problem to recoup the purchase price originally paid to be found elsewhere - the music industry (nuff said).

And it is also just speculation that News Corp could go to Bing and say that Microsoft can pay to be allowed to index the content and then market themselves to users that they - unlike their competitors - have all content on the web. Firstly, it is Murdoch not especially after Google. He mentions in the interview, Microsoft and Ask in the same breath. Secondly, it's more about the newspaper business model. The subscription numbers are falling - in some places dramatically. So instead of having to rely on printed newspapers, then Murdoch see opportunities online.

Speculation has gone after in this video on YouTube with Jason Calacanis I have seen through a second article on Techcrunch .

FREE ACCESS TO CONTENT

But the idea is as interesting enough to pursue. Not in terms of going after Google. But in relation to copyright and access to information on the Internet.

Will News Corp (and others) managed to introduce micro payments and keep search engines out, then the Internet as we know it today is changing its basic structure. Either the news media's suicide, because others would be happy to meet users' needs for news and users do not see 'quality' in the old newspapers as journalists and editors are watching. Or get the news media's success in taming the population to a degree the music industry has long failed with.

FUTURE

And basically I do not believe it. And it makes you probably do not either. Traditional newspapers risks in those years a bloodbath of dimensions because of competition from other traditional news outlets. Twitter is not a newspaper-killer. But it is the users' behavior, perhaps?

If newspapers fail to maintain its position as the point where I as a user goes to when I need to be updated and get the correct information, so their time is over. At best, they live a more humble life side by side with clean user created news media aggregators as newser.com, Yahoo / Google News and new additions to the online magazine that brings together niche content from, for example. blogs and creates interesting sources of information.

It will mean that many people with a journalistic position and / or training must redefine their professional identity, which some people are already doing. Both by virtue of changes in the media. And because there is no need for so many paid reporters.

Google Chrome in browser war

September 2, 2008 | No Comments »

It is not because all Google products or acquisitions that ends in great success and beat competitors. It is first and foremost their search engine and its AdSense / AdWords, which has enabled them to great advantage. But that is the development and other new initiatives certainly interesting to follow in. Both of the private interest of good products, but also academically based on business models for Internet companies today.

Google now challenging Microsoft and their Internet Explorer to launch Google Chrome:

A colleague recently made me aware that the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 has a built-in "InPrivate Blocking". Evil tongues in the network forums and blogs writes that it is an anti-Google weapons to prevent services like. Google or other (Gemius, Wonder Loop, etc.) to capture information about users, or "Ad targets." Likewise, the fact is that IE8 will automatically forward queries for addresses to Microsoft Live Maps.

It is not just Internet Explorer that may be affected by Google Chrome. Despite the fact Firefox is also the next three years (new contract just signed http://news.cnet.com/ ) is partly funded by Google, by having them as your default search engine in the browser so it can mean a farewell to development of this browser if Google gets more success with their own?

Immediately it is not because our Danish online services business is under threat of Google Chrome, but the situation around the new browsers raises yet a number of issues that are worth pondering.