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What will Murdoch do when Twitter hijacks the links?
by toddh 17y ago
What will Murdoch do when Twitter hijacks the links?
- senko 17y agoTwitter references bring pageviews, while Google News brings .. nothing? I doubt (have no proof though, would be interested in numbers) that a considerable percentage of visits to a news site is from search engines. One data point: I don't remember when I last googled my way into a news article.
- onewland 17y agoYou probably haven't intentionally done it, but let's say you're looking for information on the arrest of Bernard Madoff or the Lehman bankruptcy: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS345US345&q=madoff+arrest&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g-p1g3g-m6 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS345US... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS345US345&q=lehman+bankruptcy&aq=0&oq=lehman+bankr&aqi=g10 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS345US... While it's true that I probably wouldn't search for "xyz Wall Street Journal article" I might be searching for xyz topic and happen upon a result in the WSJ