I recently heard about the google news agency. I wonder how this company has such amazing potential to venture into each and every field seamlessly. This indeed was a very bold move by a tech-savvy company when it was forced by the news agencies to pay them for aggregating the news. The victory is pyrrhic. For the agencies have transformed google into what it was not, into what they and their clients should most dread. The paradox here is, syndicated news is aggregated and google is a very successful aggregator. A link makes syndication obsolete; a link is more efficient. So if a information provider knows how to top the google's story ranking, they know how to profit. This is a healthy competition and we are vstepping into a new arena of information age. Google should serve the cause of journalism by giving credit to the journalists who are the building blocks. The idea is simple, do what you do best and link to the rest. People recognize you through your value, not because you are a destination !!!!!!
12 September 2007
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