Oh so the News industry thinks that Google is eating its piece of cake in huge chunks, especially Rupert Murdoch who thinks Content should be hidden from the Search Engines. Why? Well because there is no such thing as Free News! Well I don’t care about the content being free or not, but Google alone sends these news sites more than 4 Billion hits a month. Now all that promotion and hits are being done via search and if some half brained fool actually accepts Murdoch’s idea and puts an iron curtain on content from these sources, News itself would take a huge chunk worth 4 billion clicks from its share.
So what exactly is wrong with this? Well to be honest, if the point is journalists and agencies working hard and spending cash to put quality content online, these agencies can make a fortune out of those hits. So the missing link is the obvious bad advertising that makes them all feel the pinch. Alright I don’t side with actually putting the content out and about for free for every Tom, Dick and Harry, but hey that is where you get all the promotion from. The idea to limit free views per person to five sounds good enough, at least this would give consumers a chance to actually read and judge if the content is really worth what they want before they actually subscribe. Tell the truth here, how many of you would actually pay for a subscription if all you could decide on was one page?
