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Google as the news industry’s middle man

By Michael Becker | Published: April 12, 2009
In the grand scheme of things, the Internet was sup­posed to directly con­nect peo­ple — buy­ers and sell­ers, read­ers and writ­ers, etc. — and elim­i­nate the mid­dle man. In real­ity, the mid­dle man is more impor­tant than ever, and the biggest mid­dle man of them all is Google, argues Nicholas Carr.
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Ads in Google News search results

By Michael Becker | Published: February 26, 2009
Yesterday, Google announced that it would begin dis­play­ing text ads in its Google News search results. John Battelle says the ads will kick up a storm of com­plaints from news out­lets that pro­vide Google News’s con­tent but won’t make dollar-one off the adver­tis­ing. But Adam Ostrow at Mashable thinks it won’t be such a big deal [...]
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