“What’s the best way to try and smooth relations over with angry publishers? If you’re Google, and the publishers are upset that their content is being indexed by your Web spiders for free, the answer is apparently very simple: Throw money at the publishers. Call me cynical, but that’s undoubtedly the thinking in a recent announcement that the search giant was creating a €60 million (approximately $82 million USD) Digital Publishing Innovation Fund to help the publishers monetize their content.”

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