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Report: News Corp. to Block Google News "Within Months"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 13, 2009 - 9:52am.
London - Days after News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) chairman Rupert Murdoch said he plans to block stories from his stable of newspapers from appearing in Google's news index, the company's chief digital officer, Jonathan Miller, echoed the position and said the move would come in "months and quarters -- not weeks," the Telegraph reported. "The traffic which comes in from Google brings a consumer who more often than not read one article and then leaves the site. That is the least valuable of traffic to us... the economic impact [of not having content indexed by Google] is not as great as you might think. You can survive without it," Miller said at the Monaco Media Forum, according to the Telegraph's coverage.

News Corp. Mulls Google News Exit for WSJ, Other Papers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 9, 2009 - 10:09am.
New York - News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) chairman Rupert Murdoch is considering blocking newspaper content from The Wall Street Journal and his company's other papers from appearing in Google's (NASD: GOOG) news index, The Guardian reported, citing an interview with Sky News Australia. Murdoch added that such a move wouldn't happen until his plan to begin charging users for access to more of News Corp.'s newspaper content online moves forward.

Google News Adds Branded YouTube News Videos

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 14, 2009 - 1:00pm.
Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has added news videos posted to YouTube by providers including the Associated Press, UPI and France 24 to its Google News service. Video thumbnails, along with the YouTube logo, now appear in relevant Google News search results.

Google News Debuts Local News Search Feature

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 8, 2008 - 12:22pm.

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) this week added a new local news feature to its Google News service, allowing users to see the day's top stories based on an address, city or zip code. "While we're not the first news site to aggregate local news, we're doing it a bit differently -- we're able to create a local section for any city, state or country in the world and include thousands of sources," the company wrote on its blog. "We're not simply looking at the byline or the source, but instead we analyze every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located."

Google News Licenses Full Articles From Associated Press, Others

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 4, 2007 - 10:30am.

San Francisco - Google has begun publishing full stories from news agencies such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Canadian Press and Britain's Press Association on its Google News aggregation service, Reuters reported.

Google to Let "Newsmakers" Comment on Google News Stories

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 8, 2007 - 4:17pm.

Mountain View, Calif. - Google has added the ability for certain users to add comments to the stories from 4,500 sources it aggregates on its Google News service -- namely, those individuals or groups who are mentioned in the stories. Unlike Digg, another news aggregation site where users can comment on and rank stories, prospective commenters on Google News stories must e-mail their comments to Google, along with proof of identity. The company will then try to independently assess the identity of the individual.

Analysis: Google News Falls Behind Digg in UK Visits, But That Is Not The Whole Story

Authored by Heather Hopkins on May 29, 2007 - 10:19am.

Two weeks ago, Google News fell behind Digg.com in share of UK visits to News and Media websites. Yahoo! News UK & Ireland ranks at #4, Digg.com at #6 and Google News UK at #7 among News and Media websites. However, looking at website visits alone tells only half the story.

In Partial Resolution of Dispute, Belgian Newspapers Return to Google

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 3, 2007 - 1:22pm.

Brussels, Belgium - French-language newspapers in Belgium have reached a truce of sorts with Google, and will allow the search engine to once again link to their websites, but talks fell short of an agreement that would return their articles to Google News, the Associated Press reported.

AFP Settles Copyright Suit Against Google; Licenses News Stories, Photos

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 10, 2007 - 12:57pm.

Washington - The news gathering organization Agence France-Presse (AFP) announced that it has settled a lawsuit with Google, and licensed the company to use AFP news and photos on Google News and other services.

Buzz Watch: Why Did Murdoch Cancel O. J. Simpson’s Book and Interview?

Authored by Jay Baage on November 21, 2006 - 10:08am.
Everyone knows that News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is not the type of person to back down from a controversial subject, especially if it will make him and his company a lot of money. That is why it’s interesting to note that News Corp. has canceled the planned publication of the O.J. Simpson book, If I Did It, due to be published on its subsidiary Regan Books, as well as a two-part TV interview of Simpson, which was scheduled to air on Fox on Nov. 27 and 29. In the book and in the interview, Simpson was to discuss how he, hypothetically, would have killed his wife, Nicole Brown-Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, if he had done it, of course.