> Google has been bleeding the media dry. I don't think that's a fair characterization. Would you say that Ford bled blacksmiths and carriage makers dry? Tec

> Google has been bleeding the media dry. I don't think that's a fair characterization. Would you say that Ford bled blacksmiths and carriage makers dry? Technology moves on. Newspapers are dying because their business model blows in the current infoscape. People spend most of their attention on things other than news, and news is the ultimate information commodity. > Every single year, Google's ad business shifts more revenue from the "shares with third party sites" segment over to the "keeps all of it" segment. The linked article shows that the "keeps all of it" portion has been growing faster than the "shares with third party sites" portion. I don't think it's fair to say that they shift revenue from one to the other. > So while Google Search used to heavily fund news, every year, Google's cut gets bigger, and news orgs' cut gets smaller. This is not shown by the data in the linked article. Clicks and CPC are slightly down for "shares with third party sites" but that does not say anything about news sites in particular.