Google article

1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry?

Google decided to decline the newspaper industry because there has been alot of money that has been missing from the newspaper company for a long time. The amount that was missing was around $40 billion. The newspapers would have been around $60 billion by now if the growth had continued in the past decade.


2) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs? Why?

I think that google are too blame for the loss of newspapers jobs. This is because most people prefer to use a search engine to look at newspaper articles and see whats going on in the newspaper industry. Having all of this would make the business run out as everyone uses the internet and have apps on their phone to check these things. The old way would have been getting the newspaper everyday or every sunday.


 3) Read the comments below the article. Pick one comment you agree with and one you disagree with and justify your opinions in detail.

I agree with "Well, if the Google duo aren’t smart enough to invest in content, they’re going to be joining the buggy-whip makers in the dustbin of history. A temporary anomaly has given great wealth to the people who invented the digital equivalent of the printing press and the library card catalogue. The actual value being exploited resides in the underlying information that the Internet “prints” and Google indexes; Google does not actually own any of that information. Regardless of how nimble Google leaders are, they cannot indefinitely continue to control and reap the vast majority of the profit from assets they do not own; the owners will eventually assert themselves. And this is the real way to view what Bezos and Omidyar are up to: They know — know in their hearts — that content will again be king, and not long in the future. They want to figure out the *way* content becomes king again, before anyone else. Because that’s where the money will be" This tells me that google will find a way of being top again due to what has happend and thats true as Google is world known and popular search engine and works really well and without it, it would be bad for them and for people wo use it.



I disagree with "The vast majority of Google’s revenue comes from searches with commercial intent I.e. “cheapest coffeemaker” or “Miami hotels”. They dont earn very much from news related searches like “benghazi interviews”. I would argue they make their money on the backs of commercial enterprise, not journalists. Sergey and Larry owe the news industry nothing" . This tells me that google owners arent to blame for this evernthough i think they are. They say that they dont owe the newspaper anything but i think they do as they are the ones that are letting and giving access to people to use the internet to search for newspaper etc.