Comments on: Google News Archive! This is very important

By: eoinpurcell

eoinpurcell — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:51:37 +0000

Hey Cindy,
Thanks for posting.
I thought I made that clear?

Maybe I understated it. The real reason I posted this though is to highlight the Search element and how important all media companies are fidning it.
Sure for a consumer free is always better than paid for and if they can use the free search they may well do so. But (and this is key) Google already has nearly 60% of search traffic. At the flick fo a switch they can start to include these results in native search results. If consumers go to the premium pages without even knowing it then even fo Congoo offers a superior free service they won’t even know about it!
Sad but true!
Eoin

By: cindy

cindy — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:38:44 +0000

After reading your blog I realized that many people dont really understand what google is doing here. Google is displaying links to content that you need a credit card to access. So they are aggragating links to premium content that users cant get access to without paying….thats the service.

There is another service although new that is catching on fast called congoo.com. They not only show you the links like google but through partnerships with hundreds of publishers, Congoo.com provides FREE access to these premium articles. Links without access or links with access, its kind of a no brainer! So whose drinking all the google koolaid around here?