Is Yahoo a Better Friend to Newspapers Than Google? By Miguel Helft, New York Times (Apr 8)
Yahoo does seem to lead in friendlier relations with newspapers.
"In contrast, Yahoo has formed a much deeper relationship with members of the consortium, which now includes more than 800 dailies. Many of them are already using Yahoo’s behaviorally focused ads, and as I reported recently, some of them are getting good results. Yahoo also licenses content from consortium members and The A.P. for display on Yahoo News and other sites. "
And Google, in spite of claims of doing good, has a reputation of not sharing the revenues fairly.
"Google and Google News drive more users to newspaper sites than Yahoo, though newspapers have mixed feelings about the traffic. Many say that Google is unfairly making money off their content."
Search Engine Land looked at the controversy over news search and news papers -- News Media Bites The Search That Feeds It: Hitwise Data by Matt McGee (Apr 9)
The charge: "traditional media (Associated Press, newspapers, etc.) are accusing Internet sites (search engines, news aggregators, etc.) of diverting traffic that should be going to news web sites, profiting off news content in violation of copyright law, and essentially sending newspapers into the financial crisis that many are in today."
The truth according to Hitwise: "(Google, Yahoo, etc.) and other News & Media sites (including Yahoo News and Google News) are easily the top two traffic sources for news and media web sites."
Hitwise released figures on how much traffic Google and Yahoo actually send.
Posted by Gwen at April 11, 2009 02:59 PM