What Google News? AP: Google Plays Second Fiddle to Yahoo
The rumors of the death of newspapers, thanks to Google, have been greatly exaggerated, again.
Have Google and the wires really “torpedoed” newspapers? If so, Google is late to the news submarine party, as the Associated Press reports itself, at Yahoo:
Yahoo Inc., along with other major Web sites such as Microsoft Corp.’s MSN and Time Warner Inc.’s AOL, have been featuring AP material for years.
What’s more:
Despite Google’s dominance in search, its news section lags behind several other rivals. In July, Google News attracted 9.6 million visitors compared with Yahoo News’ industry-leading audience of 33.8 million, according to comScore Media Metrix.
Google is NOT the root of newspapers problems, newspapers’ ill-advised dependency upon Google is, as I discuss in CNN Declares Google Dependence, BUT Reuters Independence.
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