Comments on: Who gets their news from Google?

By: someBrad

someBrad — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:06:08 +0000

I think it might be useful to distinguish between Google News the service (which would include Fast Flip) as a more passive “what’s new?” news consumption activity and the active approach of using Google search to find out about a specific topic. I never do the former and the times I do the latter its usually taking advantage of the long tail. By which I mean, its a topic that’s pretty obscure or specific to a region or profession where I don’t already know the trustworthy news sources so I can go to them directly. In that case, the Times, Journal, and Post are not likely to be in the search results anyway.

By: Matthew Rathbone

Matthew Rathbone — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:12:10 +0000

Regardless of whether people read headlines from Google, I’m sure a large percentage of Murdoch’s page views come from one google site or another, which is why it could be a mistake to block them.

The few times I’ve tried to read news solely on google I always end upclicking through through to the originating article anyway

Blocking Google only really seems to be to the benefit of other search engines like Bing who might be able to form partnerships for exclusive content indexing, especially if Murdoch’s papers introduce paid content.

By: Laurence Turner

Laurence Turner — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:00:53 +0000

Once upon a time, I used Google News. When I found, Instapaper, Google Reader and then NetNewsWire for the iPhone, I never looked back.

By: Unclespeedo

Unclespeedo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:20:35 +0000

90% of the rss feeds I read daily come from google news search