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# Google News: Newsagent of the Web
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/12/google_news_newsagent_of_the_web/
- Published: 2009-12-03T17:39:55.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:42:03.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Google, Journalism, microsoft, national newspapers, news, newspapers

Ha!

Less than 24 hours after I [made the comparison between Google and newsagents](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/12/the%5Fmurdochgoogle%5Fphony%5Fwar.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) in yeterday’s post, Matt Brittin, managing director of Google UK, makes that very same point in front of a committee of MPs:

> “It’s wrong to paint us as stealing content. We are, if you like, a virtual newsagent…
> 
> “  
> “In a physical newsagent’s, newspapers will pay the newsagent to have their newspapers in the shop. We don’t charge anybody for this service. This is a free service.”

You can read more about Google’s response on [Press Gazette](http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44741&c=1&ref=onemanandhisblog.com) and [Journalism.co.uk](http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/536788.php?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

And [this story](http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/12/03/ft-com-microsoft-unlikely-to-pay-users-to-leave-google/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) looks like it quietly kills off the idea that search engines might pay publishers for exclusive content idea.