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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Fires Back at Newspapers

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The Associated Press (AP) He told newspaper publishers, "I would encourage everybody: think in terms of what your reader wants. These are ultimately consumer businesses and if you piss off enough of them, you will not have any more." (
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On the subject of tweaking Google's algorithm to lean towards "credible brands," Schmidt reminded people, "We actually do that in the case of Google News. Google News uses a relatively fixed set of sources which are selected based on exactly the kind of trust that you’re describing." (


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"We don’t want to do the kind of thing you’re describing unless we can do it across the board and for all categories of trusted institutions, not just newspapers."


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