Google slammed, Google praised at newspaper conference
WAN 2007 | (5)
Eamonn Byrne from the World Association of newspapers asked the panel at the last session of this congress: Is partnering with a search engine a good idea?
The media industry have two main issues with Google. (1) They believe that Google is unfairly using and profiting off publisher's content. Hence the arrival of the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP), which I personally think will eventually be a mechanism for publishers to extract revenue out of Google for spidering their content. (2) Publishers have issues with the fact that Google is becoming a powerful intermediary between the advertiser or agency and the ...
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