Google vs Murdoch, Twitter and Facebook
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Australian media billionaire Rupert Murdoch is betting there is.
He “reckons net access content is worth money,” said p2pnet yesterday, going on, “Lots of money. And who better to mine it?
“But why should net users, who’ve always enjoyed free content, suddenly have to pay for it?”of
Easy, says Rupert, “They shouldn’t have had it free all the time. I think we’ve been asleep.”
And as part of the awakening process, he’s threatening to yank all his content from the net’s largest advertising firm, Google, which also owns what’s arguably the most popular search engine.
“Of course, all the netizens freak out when this happens,” says US media billionaire Mark Cuban in Blog Maverick. “Which I love.”
He goes on »»»
I love to tweak all the internet information must be free bigots. They get so damn religious about information on the net that they lose what little objectivity and awareness of the real world they had in the first place. First a little enlightenment for all of you that think Murdoch is making a mistake. This is not 1999, nor is it 2004, nor is it 2006, nor is it 2008. The calendar is about to turn to 2010. What worked and made sense 3,5 and 10 years ago, no longer does.
What has changed ? Quite a bit, but lets start with this. TWITTER IS SURPASSING GOOGLE as a destination for finding information on breaking and recent news of all types. Whats more, TWITTER POSSES NO THREAT to any destination news site. 140 characters does not a story make. Find it on twitter, link to a story on say, FoxNews and everyone is happy. The same concept applies to Facebook Links. Twitter and Facebook are not news destinations that can compete with traditional news sources. Google is. Rupert loves him some twitter. Google, not so much.
Not only but also, Twitter and Facebook are “becoming strong competitors for referrals to news sources from topical searches” and they both have “one HUGE HUGE HUGE advantage for news outlets that Google does not”.
And that is?
They’re both platforms that “allow the news sources, like newscorp to post breaking news and gain value from their brand,” says Cuban.
“Google does not.”
The “bottom line is that in this new era of twitter, things have changed,” he says, adding:
“News sites blocking Google ain’t what it used to be. Rupert is right. Deal with it.”
Stay tuned.
p2pnet – Time to pay for the net: Rupert Murdoch, November 10, 2009
Blog Maverick – Rupert Murdoch to Block Google = Smart = Twitter has changed it all, November 9, 2009
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