Se la ricerca citata da PayContent ha fondamento le speranze degli editori di trovare ricavi dalla vendita delle informazioni on-line sono una mera chimera. In effetti moltissimi nostri comportamenti di lettura sulle directory di news sono più a scorrimento veloce, che a click compulsivo.
Some data that is certain to be used to back up assertions that news aggregators—like Google News—are competing with newspaper sites as much as they are driving traffic to them. A survey of nearly 3,000 U.S. news consumers by research firm Outsell shows that 44 percent of Google News visitors say they scan headlines on the site without actually going on to the news sites themselves; “power news users” (people who check the news at least twice a day) are even more likely not to click. The survey also shows that search-news aggregators are increasingly being turned to as a primary source for news.
Google contends that Google News drives billions of clicks each month to news sites, which news sites can then monetize. When we asked the company for comment today, a spokesman said, “We show just enough for users to identify the stories they’re interested in—a headline, a short snippet and a link to the publisher’s site—and we direct users to those news sites to read the stories.”