Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says

Re:Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says by abhv on Monday June 10, 2019 @11:03AM (#20147352)

* Can someone explain how Google makes money from sending clicks to NYT ?

news.google.com doesn't seem to show ads.

* If it is "user search on foo" --show ads on results page-> "user clicks on ad and also goes to nyt article on foo"

that seems fair.

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Re:Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says by _throwawayyyyy1 on Monday June 10, 2019 @11:16AM (#20147465)

one way i think about it ... imagine if google, facebook & twitter could somehow physically no longer link to news stories on any of their properties ... like if there was some magical switch that was thrown ... how much would their traffic fall, and how much would their revenue fall? I could easily see that being in the multi billions industry wide. so in that sense they are making money from news content.

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Re:Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says by marstall on Monday June 10, 2019 @11:32AM (#20147641)

it's like a pyramid scheme - web firms stripping value from news companies until there is none left - and then what? Most of the interesting content on the internet is, in fact, generated by professional newsgatherers. Take that away and the web itself loses enormous, enormous value.

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Re:Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says by aiCeivi9 on Monday June 10, 2019 @11:55AM (#20147910)

Unrelated, but I observe common flow:

1. User searches for SOMETHING

2. Users click ad that leads to www_SOMETHING_com

3. First result, under the ad, was the organic link to www_SOMETHING_com

Is there no way to disable my own ad, if my site is the first result anyway? Will then Google show ads for my competitors instead? That doesn't sound fair at all.

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