RT @tariqkrim: As Facebook becomes the dominant...
RT @tariqkrim: As Facebook becomes the dominant source for news, Google tries to make friends with the press https://t.co/r1J8jsJk9G
August 04, 2016
/http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-assets-05.thedrum.com%2Fcache%2Fimages%2Fthedrum-prod%2Fs3-news-tmp-980-london_youtue_office--2x1--912.jpg)
Google is on a mission to make itself more loved by the news industry. For so long it has been regarded by newspapers as a threat, the great beast of faraway Mountain View which undermines their businesses with its disruptive algorithms. One of its most outspoken critics, the News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, compared it in 2009 to "parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet".