La presse envoie sa facture à Google :
In Belgium and the Netherlands, where the service was just launched, Google News has opponents, too. The Dutch Publishers Association considers that Google should remunerate the online newspapers it quotes. As a retaliatory measure, the Belgian newspaper De Standaard has decided to block its links to Google News.
Heh. They didn’t mind linking Google News as long as it wasn’t their content that was copied?
More seriously, even if “35% of Google News visitors won’t go any further on the information websites
”, that’s still 65% of them liable to go and visit, plus 35% who wouldn’t read you anyway but see the source name displayed — in other words, it’s advertising, lots of, more than you could ever afford. And, of course, you complain.
It’s really amazing how clueless all content-production businesses can be.
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