Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Belgian Court Tells Google to Drop Newspaper Excerpts - New York Times

Major dilemma for Google 

The legal action is the most recent example of the news media’s challenging the growing power of Internet news portals run by the large search engines. Increasingly, people are obtaining their news in bite-size nuggets on search engines, and advertising revenue for newspapers is diminishing as a result.

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Google News benefits publishers, Mr. Collins said, by making it easier for people to find their content and driving large numbers of users to their Web sites.

“It is important to remember that we never show more than the headlines and a few snippets of text,” he said. “If people want to read the entire story they have to click through to the newspapers’ Web site.”

Source: Belgian Court Tells Google to Drop Newspaper Excerpts - New York Times

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