Among the many things worth reading this week, there’s this from Will Oremus in Slate. Using a chart that demonstrates that Google (worldwide) generates more advertising revenue than the entire US print media combined, Oremus recalls the origins of the…
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NewsNow: ‘End These Indiscriminate Attacks’
NewsNow is something of a British success story. Launched in 1998, during that first phase of internet entrepreneurship, it is the country’s leading news aggregator and the UK’s answer to Google News. It currently accounts for 20 per cent of the market. Set…
Cervical Cancer Vaccine Scaremongering Pits Google Against The Blogosphere
Fellow blogger Malcolm Coles is conducting a medical experiment, but you’re more likely to see the results in New Media Age than The Lancet. Following death this week of a teenage girl moments after she had been immunized against cervical…
Google Fast Flip Verdict – Good News For Users, Bad News For Newspapers
So long Google News and thanks for all the traffic. Google Fast Flip may still be in the labs but the search giant’s latest efforts should give some in the newspaper industry nightmares. First things first, it is a pretty nice concept…
10 Google News Optimisation Tips From Google
As someone once said, “I consider Google News a gift, but newspapers consider it theft.” There’s a time and place for a debate about the effect – insidious or otherwise – of the web’s leading news aggregator. And this isn’t it. Except…
Top 10 News Aggregators In The UK
Another interesting piece of number crunching from the people at Hitwise. Robin Goad began the week looking at the Ashes effect on the UK internet landscape (mixing business and pleasure, I suspect). He ends it by looking at the relative power of…
What Would Google Do? Fail Quietly.
You may have missed the news, the Google News. A near two year experiment to feature comments from those in the news, has been dropped. In fact it was dropped back in May. And if you did miss it, you’re forgiven.…
‘I Consider Google News A Gift, Newspapers Consider It Theft.’
The folk at Random House assured me it would be with me yesterday. Yet the postman didn’t even ring once. So no copy of Chris Anderson’s latest, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. So I’ll have to make do…
Taking The Micheal. (Did You Mean ‘Michael’?)
Loads of stats around on Michael Jackson’s death last week and the subsequent surge in web traffic. For example, Twitter’s audience reached an all-time, high claiming 0.24% of all US internet visits on Friday (that’s one in every 417). Similar stellar…
How Twitter Left Google News Trailing Over Iran
So this is what we think we know – after the Sichuan earthquake and the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the aftermath of the Iranian elections marks the latest coming of age for Twitter. As a vechicle breaking news and real-time updates the microblogging site has…
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