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No one owes those bloggers traffic. Certainly Paul Krugman is completely out of left field to suggest that the traffic is a public service.
by bmmayer1 14y ago
No one owes those bloggers traffic. Certainly Paul Krugman is completely out of left field to suggest that the traffic is a public service.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoI agree that Krugman over states the importance. My point was that Reader generates a lot of legitimate advertising revenue for Google, which they kill off, and in the process may kill off some of their smaller "partner sites." That refutes the equally over broad characterization that "nobody" uses Reader to put food on the table.
- aptwebapps 14y agoWhere did he do that? Ryan Avent, whom Krugman links to, talks about Google providing public services but he's talking about their whole offering. Krugman is just playing with the economics of fixed-priced monopolies.