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> There's no imbalance here: newspapers produce content, search engines/social networks surface and link to it. As evidenced by the average RoI at Google compa
by pyrale 3y ago
> There's no imbalance here: newspapers produce content, search engines/social networks surface and link to it.
As evidenced by the average RoI at Google compared to news organisations.
- tempestn 3y agoI expect you'll find that discontinuing their news linking service in Canada has very little effect on Google's profitability.
- pyrale 3y agoI agree that Canada should probably have targeted their ad service rather than which link they publish.
- throwuwu 3y agoOne is the world’s dominant gateway to the internet, the others are a handful of websites.
- amf12 3y ago> As evidenced by the average RoI at Google compared to news organisations. Not a good metric. The ROI difference is because of both entities being in different industries, and other things unrelated to the power balance. We can similarly compare the ROI of a news organization and say a restaurant and lament that there is an imbalance of power.