Posts Tagged ‘Rupert Murdoch’

• Google News limits

  Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

  From today,  readers of Google news items will find their access limited to 5 items per day from certain sources – the majority of which are those who have been vociferous about search engines carrying their news for free. Announcements by the likes of Rupert Murdoch that Google is profiting from their work, and giving it away for free to people who then avoid paying subscription rates etc have been headlines for several weeks.

  Some media groups have already made the shift to charging for online news content eg Johnston Press, who are charging £5 for a 3 month access to news on their website. It has to be seen how this will succeed in light of the speed that news now breaks on Twitter and so on, from citizen journalists as well as professional sources.

  Is a new model required now that the internet has brought instant news access rather than yesterday’s news in tomorrow’s chip papers? Or will the major media groups find a way of extending the paid model yet further? Only time will tell.

  

  Tags: Google, Google News, limits, News, Rupert Murdoch, search, subscriptions, twitter
  Posted in Google, Stats & Trends

• Is Seth Godin wrong about Google vs Murdoch?

  Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

  Interestingly, I was just penning a post for another blog on the subject of Rupert Murdoch etc when Seth’s latest article landed in my inbox – Rupert Murdoch has it backwards

  I think Seth, and potentially many others, may have it wrong. I include myself on this as I am now re-writing my post for the other blog!

  Why? Because I read this, literally seconds before Seth’s post landed, on The Register – Murdoch: Google is mortal and together we can kill it

  Have some of us in the industry possibly become innured and accustomed to Google’s presence in our world? Do we fight it or argue about Google being the ‘main man’? Or have we given in? It isn’t that long (only 15 years) since I started in the industry, but there was no Google then. I don’t remember suffering to be honest.

  The whole purpose of setting up an Internet Marketing business was to help companies to be found online. There were plenty of places where they could be found in the pre-Google days, but the SMEs didn’t know how to be featured in those places. For some, the costs vs rewards of internet marketing were infinitely better than now back then.And far less stressful!

  Have we given Google an infinite rein to run around on like a demanding, spoilt brat? Or is it just “let the best man win” and Google are, indeed, winning?

  I have just looked at the last 5 email newsletters from the industry which have landed today.  I will choose one, at random, to illustrate how deeply ingrained our reliance on Google has become.

  Today’s SearchEngine Land: SearchCap, the day in search for November 23rd. First 4 stories: Google + one ad for SMX. Look further down that email, 34 mentions of Google. Just to give you a clue as to its prevalence, there are precisely half that number of instances of the word “and”.

  I urge people to read the somewhat controversial, possibly, article in El Reg and then comment.  But only after you have paused for thought.

  Forget you are American and so is Google, forget you earn your living from SERPs, and Google, adwords etc. First and foremost you are an internet marketer and should be using every channel and avenue for your clients.

  What exactly does this alt.thinking mean to you?

  

  Tags: business, future, Google, internet marketing, Rupert Murdoch, SEM, seth godin
  Posted in Google, Internet Marketing News, SEM Industry