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Google CEO Warns Newspapers Not To Anger Readers 328

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @08:54AM from the hand-that-feeds dept.

Barence writes "Google CEO Eric Schmidt has hit back at newspaper bosses, warning them that they risk alienating readers in their war against news aggregators such as Google News. 'I would encourage everybody to think in terms of what your reader wants,' Schmidt said at a conference for the Newspaper Association of America. 'These are ultimately consumer businesses and if you piss off enough of them, you will not have any more.' Schmidt's rebuke follows a sustained attack on Google by newspaper bosses such as Rupert Murdoch, who have accused the search giant of 'stealing' their content without payment." Schmidt also suggested that newspapers need to expand their distribution methods to make better use of mobile technology, and a NY Times piece argues that the Associated Press' struggle against aggregators is futile since they're largely trying to give news stories to consumers for free anyway.

Comment The Cartoon (Score 1) 771

by LunarOne on Thursday September 04, 2008 @08:28AM (#24872087) Attached to: Chrome Vs. IE 8

My recommendation is that you don't ignore this. I wish all documentation was written to explain something in such incredibly plain English.

I downloaded Chrome, read the whole thing and by the time I was done, was sold. Not in a marketing sense, but in a usability sense. By the time I'd done reading, I was encouraged to use many of the key features.

There's few times when something is free, and out of the box replaces the old. This one accomplishes the feat.

Now, I just want Linux versions, but looking at the technology behind it, I doubt Google will be the one making such a version. Hopefully others will.

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