Why Google's impressive value-of-news study has serious shortcomings

Why Google's impressive value-of-news study has serious shortcomings

As part of the ongoing messy relationship between Google and the publishing industry, Google had become frustrated with what they saw as overreach by negotiators who put a value on news. In June they commissioned a study to show the impact on their revenues of removing news, it ran from November for ten weeks or so and in their press release last week Paul Liu the Director, Economics at Google stated: “European news content in Search has no meas…