DoubleR

October 11, 2009 at 1:14pm

My guess is search providers could then block out their suites in
search results and then people will not be able to search and find a
reason to go their site.  Their traffic will go down??  At the same
time they have made it known that they want to charge to
go their site period.  The haircut analogy does not work here.  The
barber
raise the price to deliberately decrease patrons and not have to work
as hard to make the same
money or more. The bet is most will not find or go to cheaper barber
because they just don't want to change or do not go shop around. 
That's not how the internet works.

gendoikari1

October 09, 2009 at 10:16pm

So they want people to pay for slower, inaccurate (which is a corruption of "Ell Oh Ell") news when they can get it now for free? They deserve to be banhammer'd for their insolence.

Zazubovich

October 09, 2009 at 5:06pm

Both are right biased propaganda outlets.  Their profit model with a paid subscription would better put them both with their on-line only peers like NewsMax and Alex Jones' online presence.

Newspapers are likewise dunzo unless they realize that the quality of the information, the utility of the information, and the value of the information to users is now more important than their authority by virtue of the fact that they are journalists at a brick and mortar newspaper.  NYT found out about subscription models.  Murdoch, you still crazy!

comptech08

October 09, 2009 at 2:36pm

What does this have to do with search engines? For the most part search engines give you results on what you searched for.  The content of those queries are on other websites.  Not the search engines website.

 

I have a hard time paying for news.  I guess you could blame it on the internet.  But i thank the internet, because paying to hear or read what is going on in our world is stupid.

ferds7

October 09, 2009 at 2:32pm

So old fashioned. Information from both those groups is just about as accurate as it is off Twitter anyways. If they go subscription based they'll fail miserably. They both are just unable to adapt with the changing times and everyone knows what happens to those that don't adapt, they become extinct. It's nature. To bad, so long, you won't be missed or remembered.