Tom Grubisich: May 2009 archive

Newspapers should become carnival barkers on their Google-linked pages

May 26, 2009

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has tauntingly suggested that newspapers could keep their stories out of the search engine's omnivorous maw by the simple expedient of inserting a line of anti-spidering robot text. But newspapers don't have to commit hara-kiri to keep others from making a free lunch (and breakfast, dinner and snacks) out of their expensively produced content.

Yet so far they haven't been creative enough to exploit the potential of having their stories turning up as links on the heavily-trafficked Google News homepage. In her recent testimony [PDF] at a Senate committee hearing on "The Future of Journalism," Google Vice President for User Experience Marissa Mayer gave a virtual tutorial on how newspapers could do that. More...

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