The New York Times Accuses Google of Being A Media Company

In the new digital media world, traditional lines dividing companies are blurring everywhere. David Carr at the New York Times makes the argument that even Google, which has adamantly denied being a media company in the past, can no longer escape the terrifying label.

Carr argues that Google is no longer merely a search tool because in generating results, it “does not want its search engines to crawl across a wasteland of machine-generated info-spam and amateur content with limited allure.”

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