According to Experian’s Hitwise service, Google and Google News accounts for 25% of the daily traffic to WSJ.com and 44% of them are users that haven’t visited in over 30 days…
In Murdoch’s interview with Sky News he said “I think we’ve been asleep. It costs us a lot of money to put together good newspapers and good content. They’re very happy to pay for it when they buy a newspaper, and I think when they read it elsewhere they’re going to have to pay.”
Completely disappearing from Google search engines for topical news content is an early death warning. Especially in this time of change and shift towards an increasingly important mobile search market (Google’s purchase of AdMob for $750M) where News Corp content will not be from the onset?
Here is a great interview with Rupert Murdoch from Sky News in Austrailia. He discusses actively removing or hiding content from internet aggregators such as Google and Microsoft as well as not valuing the type of traffic their search engines send to content destinations.
Mr. Murdoch mentions “stealing” from “comptetiion” quite a bit. The last half of the interview goes into global economy, politics and general opinions… Try not to imagine him talking to a kangaroo with glasses while watching…
Read the article from mUmbrella here and ironically the Youtube video here
Digg is testing a new feature to “compete” with Twitter’s real time trending topics. Digg Trending Stories is a spot on the Digg.com homepage where trending stories, selected based on an algorithm of among other things Diggs, shares, comments, are surfaced to allow users to either Digg it or let it fade back into the internets…
Digg Trending stories
This seems very redundant. Isn’t the notion of Digg already all about top stories that users have pushed to the top? Especially on the homepage? Perhaps a Digg Trending story more like an article still in the “minor leagues” waiting to get called up? Ironically Digg has also set up a Twitter account when a new Trending Story is posted.
Not only is Google partnering with MySpace and Lala to bring music listening and purchase results front and center on search results but now they are offering exclusive tracks and free downloads from both services. This is great in theory but in execution it is lacking one small touch that would make it brilliant. continue reading »
Facebook announced last week 19 new items on their development roadmap to be implemented in the last two months of the year and into 2010. Of the 19 items some, if utilized correctly, will help social games become more mainstream and accepted. Others will bury a lot of the existing game models that have allowed the mafia type games to take off. continue reading »
