Comments on: Danny Sullivan vs. Newspapers http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/04/07/danny-sullivan-vs-newspapers/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Daniel Tunkelang http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/04/07/danny-sullivan-vs-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-2818 Daniel Tunkelang Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:24:24 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=1880#comment-2818 Danny Sullivan responded to my comment. I recommend reading his entire post, as well as the full comment stream, but I think it's only right to include his direct response to me here: <i> Daniel, thanks for your comment. Until literally a few weeks ago, Google made no money directly off Google News. But yet, it does and did help drive traffic to Gogole.com. I'm not suggesting that Google's somehow altruistically offering Google News for the betterment of the world. Google's a business. It launched Google News following the success of other preexisting news aggregators like Yahoo News. I just don't see how Google suddenly gets to be the brunt of all these publishers with complaints. And in terms of "love," the point I'm making is that for all the complaints newspapers have about their supposed mistreatment by Google, they've had a lovefest compared to those who run ordinary web sites. Want to cover news as an independent journalist? Good luck getting included into Google News -- but the Wall Street Journal waltzes right in. Want to put up a paywall around your content but still get Google traffic. As I said, newspapers got the ability to do this years before ordinary web sites did. That's the love I'm talking about. </i> Danny Sullivan responded to my comment. I recommend reading his entire post, as well as the full comment stream, but I think it’s only right to include his direct response to me here:


Daniel, thanks for your comment. Until literally a few weeks ago, Google made no money directly off Google News. But yet, it does and did help drive traffic to Gogole.com.

I’m not suggesting that Google’s somehow altruistically offering Google News for the betterment of the world. Google’s a business. It launched Google News following the success of other preexisting news aggregators like Yahoo News.

I just don’t see how Google suddenly gets to be the brunt of all these publishers with complaints. And in terms of “love,” the point I’m making is that for all the complaints newspapers have about their supposed mistreatment by Google, they’ve had a lovefest compared to those who run ordinary web sites.

Want to cover news as an independent journalist? Good luck getting included into Google News — but the Wall Street Journal waltzes right in. Want to put up a paywall around your content but still get Google traffic. As I said, newspapers got the ability to do this years before ordinary web sites did. That’s the love I’m talking about.

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