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In Technology and Business on October 13, 2009 at 2:42 pmGoogle in Jeapordy?
In Technology and Business on November 10, 2009 at 11:01 am
Big Rupert Murdoch sez that once he starts charging subscriptions for his online media, he’s gonna block Google from accessing his sites content. (ie. remove stories from Google search index). This implies that content from sites such as The Sun, The Times and the Wall Street Journal will not show up in our search results thus encouraging people to pay for online content. He’s also gonna lobby so that other online news media pursue the same strategy. This means that eventually, if things pan out the way he plans, Google search results will be poorer thus undermining the value of the search engine, and Google’s business value. In recent months, Murdoch and his boyz stepped up their war of words with Google, accusing it of “kleptomania” and acting as a “parasite” for including News Corp content in its Google News pages. Murdoch has been turned off by the open access to information that currently exists in the www as well as by the fact that his inet acquisition MySpace has struggled in the face of competition from Facebook in recent years, and is due to fall short of its targets in a lucrative search deal with Google – a slip that could cost the site more than $100m in payments from the internet advertising giant. Some critics of this strategy claim that Murdoch has got the wrong handle on internet business and doesn’t understand that search engines enhance the value of web sites like the WSJ through
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improved traffic, implying more revenue through advertising. Murdoch they say clings to the old subscription model instead of developing his business through ad based revenue. On the other hand, this simple but intriguing strategy may just work (as it did in Korea) and may put the content holder in the driver’s seat. I mean Google currently forges contacts (through online ads etc..) with content holders so that Google gets a piece of the pie on a per click basis. If some other search engine comes around and gives the content holder a better deal (perhaps less charges on a per click basis) then this content holder’s engine may be allowed to show site results while thus enhancing the engine’s value – on a per segment basis – and undermining Google’s current leadership position in the search engine business. In other words sell your content/business to the highest – or most attractive- bidder. So we may have search engine segmentation and not a universally applicable search engine. We may also see a search engine for search engines (one step up in the information chain) ! Interesting strategy and interesting tactics (actually ingenious) for the relentless drive for market share.
Mr. Murdoch’s point of view coupled with the EUs latest decisions on information piracy reflect a trend towards slowly restricting access to internet freebies such as information and material protected by intellectual copyright. Time will tell whether these strategies pay off, or provide fertile ground for new, more aggressive business disruption methods and mechanisms.
EU Puts End to Piracy and Introduces New Telecommunications Package
In Technology and Business on November 8, 2009 at 3:28 pmFrom the Commission:
A Warm Hello from Brussels
The EU decided to propose a law that would terminate internet access to any EU citizen that is accused of downloading software that violates intellectual property rights, without prior legal process. In other words you’re guilty before proven innocent. Paradoxically, last May, the EU parliament decided that every EU citizen has the fundamental right to have access to the internet (universal access) sort of like every Canadian has the fundamental right to have access to universal Medicare. The amendment caused swift reaction from French deputies who reminded the EU parliament (whose deputies seem to have succumbed to the will of the EU
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commission which probably succumbed to some other lobby groups’ will) that similar legislation in France was deemed unconstitutional by the French High Court, and now required a legal process before any citizen is disconnected from internet access (ie. proven guilty before any action taken). The proposed law will apply (if it receives a majority vote in the EU parliament) beginning 2010 which means that the member countries will have about 18 months to embody the law in their national legal framework.
The EU also proposed a new “Telecommunication Package” that includes the following highlights:
• A subscriber can change to a different operator within a day with number portability
• A service contract can have a maximum of two years duration • Service operators must inform NRAs about subscriber information confidentiality violations
• A minimum quality of service must be guaranteed at the signing of any subscriber-service operator service contract.
• NRA position is strengthened with greater independence and a new body called BEREC is created to ensure healthy competition.
• Measured to ensure regional internet broadband access growth
