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Idle Chatter Dont Hate The Google

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Apr 09 2009 9:22am EDT

Idle Chatter: Don't Hate the Google

-Publishers who demonize Google and other aggregators ought to bear in mind how much of their traffic comes from those sites, ie. a lot. [Marketwatch, Gawker]

-On the other hand, not all aggregators are created equal. Newspaper executives seem to view Yahoo as a more benign entity than Google. [Bits]

-Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says the site's recent redesign wasn't inspired by Twitter. [BW]

-Barnes & Noble is working on its own e-reader to compete with the Kindle. Get in line. [TheStreet.com]

-A Good Morning America producer was fired for using a corporate credit card to pay for his nose job. [P6]. □

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