Google To Charge For News

[Monsta®]

bunch of swindlers! think i'll be going somewhere else!

according to the crack on your fifth click you will be passed to a reg or payment page! a kna what they'll be getting money hungry monopolizers! like m$ google must have bought some money specs and now can see only $$ signs on every thing they do! google not mean £oo£lE

Edited December 3, 2009 by Monsta®

[threegee]

Think you've stood things on their head here Mons. It's Google who are to be charged by the news providers.

People like that fabulous philanthrop Rupert Murdoch are determined that we consumers will pay for their news. They don't see a future for their organisations if we can all read news on-line for free, and they think the Googles of this world are getting a free ride on their content.

It has only taken Rups ten years to work out that the Internet means the end of pushing bits of dead tree through people's letterboxes. But, they are not going to give up without a struggle - however futile that struggle may be.

I hear that our own Johnston Press is starting a three months trial of charging for local news content. Their take is that local news, unlike national or regional news, is special and that people will pay for it. What a good thing for them that some towns don't have their own community websites - sites which publish local news before they can even get ink to dead tree!

[SuperMan]

This will never catch on... atleast i hope it doesnt as i will lose my paperround