Wednesday, October 31, 2007

You Need Google, Google Needs You!!

Google presents its news in various publications. In Belgian however, they wish to exclude Google from their papers because of the extent in which Google carries their news. The article from The Tech Beat entitled "Google Loses, or Did the Belgian Papers?" believes that Google provides a monumental amount of information with their news and in turn capturing more audience members than the Belgian Papers. This obviously rests on the issue of competition. With billions of customers, Google has the luxury of acquiring a sea of audience members, and due to their number of services, the Belgian Papers are in "fear" one can say, of losing their customers. However, from a critical standpoint, wouldn't it be more efficient to have Google news included in the papers? At least Google will help attract audience in addition to extending news coverages and as a result, more revenue is incurred. I think the Belgian publishing company should evaluate their future and keep Google on their team, for it's beneficial to both companies.