According to a recent article on BetaNews, Google wants to follow Journalism Online in offering a micropayment solution to news providers. While I’ll stand on my previous comments on this subject, I’m thinking Google will have more success with this than JO (although, seeing as how JO isn’t expected to be fully operational until next year, the jury’s still out on how successful they’ll actually be) — just a feeling. Google has been working acquiring what is essentially a monopoly on the flow of information on the Web for nearly a decade now. Given that for most of us, Google is THE gateway to the Internet and already a key distributor of news content, they’ve already got a leg-up on JO and others who want a piece of this pie.
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