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The issue of #Google and the news industry is this: Google is a massive advertising company. They are part of a live experiment in changing communications and publishing systems, and doing it without much understanding of what will happen as a result of their actions 1/x
Along with other advertising companies (notably Facebook) that use mass data aggregation to reengineer and make the advertising business far more efficient, they have changed the economics of content production and monetization 2/x
(Google News (the product) could never have been built by the news industry, collectively or individually, because it only works as a result of all the *other* development done on the Google core search platform. Billions of dollars of engineering etc). 3/x
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