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Robert Thomson, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, on WSJ.com’s plans to move into the local space.
Oh yeah, and they’re going to experiment with micro-payments, too. (quote via Cory Bergman's Lost Remote, Poynter.org has an excellent transcript.)
"Google devalues everything it touches. Google is great for Google but it's terrible for content providers. (...) Google doesn't distinguish between the quality of the content around which it serves up ads, it is concerned with quantity rather than quality."
Mr. Thomson has been editor of News Corp.'s Times of London, was brought in as publisher to the WSJ by Mr. Murdoch after the completion of the $5.16 billion acquisition of Dow Jones in December 2006.
Apparently, Thomson is expressing more than just his personal opinion: "Aside from the six years working together on the London paper, the two
men have much in common, though Mr. Thomson is 47 and Mr. Murdoch 77.
Both are Australian natives, have Chinese wives and are raising young
children. They have vacationed together and even share the same
birthday, March 11." (see source at WSJ)
If "going local" is Mr. Murdochs' new mantra - how would the imperium outmaneuver Google Maps' global dominance in mapping the local space?
