The impact of Google

The impact of Google

1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry?

Google has been receiving revenue from companies who are now wishing to post online advertisements via Google instead of traditional methods of advertising via newspapers. 
2) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs? Why?

Google have inevitably contributed to such declines as the newspaper industry has been reported to lose billions comparatively to what they may have projected to generate a decade ago before the prominence of Google.3) Read the comments below the article. Pick one comment you agree with and one you disagree with and justify your opinions in detail.

 "Obviously, Google is not to blame. I don’t think it’s about blame. I think the Internet is incredibly poorly designed. Rather than being free, everything on it should cost something in order to compensate creators. We have a proven system for doing this through organizations like ASCAP and BMI. The principal of royalties for profiting from the content of others is well established. Google came along, and, at least in the case of Youtube, knowingly robbed content creators for years in order to build up the business. The ideal system would be one in which every click resulted in a nano-charge on your phone bill, maybe 1/1000 of a cent for a news story, for example. Sites like Google that link to other sites could also pay in very tiny increments." 

I disagree with the proposed argument as I believe online institutions have created a fair and systematic way of capitalising, and it has also been lucrative for many online content creators who have started as 'the guy in his apartment'. 

"Well, if the Google duo aren’t smart enough to invest in content, they’re going to be joining the buggy-whip makers in the dustbin of history. A temporary anomaly has given great wealth to the people who invented the digital equivalent of the printing press and the library card catalogue. The actual value being exploited resides in the underlying information that the Internet “prints” and Google indexes; Google does not actually own any of that information. Regardless of how nimble Google leaders are, they cannot indefinitely continue to control and reap the vast majority of the profit from assets they do not own"

Technically accurate, and understands the sheer fact of importance in the digital world given to accessibility and content in their distinct respects.