People are pointing out that Google doesn't serve ads on Google news, and that they drive clicks to news sites, like this is some kind of huge favor. Its not, i

People are pointing out that Google doesn't serve ads on Google news, and that they drive clicks to news sites, like this is some kind of huge favor. Its not, its strategy. Google wants to be the choke-point for every page lookup on the web. They have the stats on what people search and news is obviously a big one, so they provide services like this to put a moat around that sweet sweet ad revenue that might leak away if users were to ever use anything other than Google as the first thing they open in a browser.