Google claims to send its users to news sites around 24 billion times per month. This company claims, gives the publishers a chance to grow their business.
The tech company claims that it is invested in helping journalism not only survive, but thrive.Richard Gingras, VP, News, claims that the value of news to Google is about informing and educating, not economics. "Nearly all of our revenue comes not from news queries, but from queries with commercial intent, like someone searching for a new 'toaster' and clicking on an ad.
Google gets paid for search ads only when someone clicks on one," he said in a statement on Friday.On Thursday, the tech giant announced a new licensing programme to pay publishers for high-quality content.