Comments on: What’s missing from the Google/newspapers discussion http://strange.corante.com/2009/04/19/whats-missing-from-the-googlenewspapers-discussion Picking out patterns in the chaos Tue, 22 May 2012 21:06:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 20, 2009 http://strange.corante.com/2009/04/19/whats-missing-from-the-googlenewspapers-discussion#comment-5473 SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 20, 2009 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:17:48 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/?p=2278#comment-5473 [...] What’s missing from the Google/newspapers discussion, Strange Attractor [...] [...] What’s missing from the Google/newspapers discussion, Strange Attractor [...]

]]> By: Jay Rosen http://strange.corante.com/2009/04/19/whats-missing-from-the-googlenewspapers-discussion#comment-5457 Jay Rosen Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:36:38 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/?p=2278#comment-5457 Suw: Google News recently started putting ads on the search results page, so your statement that "Google News runs no adverts" is not totally accurate. It does not run ads next to any news stories in Google News, just search results. See: http://steveouting.com/2009/04/07/google-could-come-to-the-rescue-but-wont/ and for an illustration of some of your points, see this from a journalism professor: http://tr.im/jan0 Cheers and keep up the good work. Suw: Google News recently started putting ads on the search results page, so your statement that “Google News runs no adverts” is not totally accurate. It does not run ads next to any news stories in Google News, just search results. See:

http://steveouting.com/2009/04/07/google-could-come-to-the-rescue-but-wont/

and for an illustration of some of your points, see this from a journalism professor:

http://tr.im/jan0

Cheers and keep up the good work.

]]> By: MichaelJ http://strange.corante.com/2009/04/19/whats-missing-from-the-googlenewspapers-discussion#comment-5455 MichaelJ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:18:12 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/?p=2278#comment-5455 The discussion is made even more complicated as journalists hold on to the meme that people buy newspapers to read. That's demonstrably false. People buy newspapers mostly to scan and for items that interest them, the sports scores, sports stories, gossip, horoscopes, cartoons and the adverts. The notion that the purpose of buying a newspaper to read was never true. While some reading does go on, it's the expectation of something useful and perhaps something interesting that causes the purchase. The reality is that news-on-paper is the most highly evolved search platform in physical space. Light, disposable, cheap. Google merely allows people to do what they have always done. Scan their environment while they are searching for something interesting. The discussion is made even more complicated as journalists hold on to the meme that people buy newspapers to read. That’s demonstrably false. People buy newspapers mostly to scan and for items that interest them, the sports scores, sports stories, gossip, horoscopes, cartoons and the adverts.

The notion that the purpose of buying a newspaper to read was never true. While some reading does go on, it’s the expectation of something useful and perhaps something interesting that causes the purchase.

The reality is that news-on-paper is the most highly evolved search platform in physical space. Light, disposable, cheap. Google merely allows people to do what they have always done. Scan their environment while they are searching for something interesting.

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