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signor_john - 7:52 pm on Nov 14, 2009 (gmt 0)
Like what? "Yankees play Red Sox" instead of "Yankees "eat Red Sox," or "New President Elected" instead of "Obama Wins Presidency"? At any given moment, some people who see a Google News headline and click through to the whole story, while some won't--just as some people walking past a newsstand will see a tabloid headline and buy the paper, while some will just think "A guy got murdered in the subway? That's too bad" and walk on by. Most publishers obviously feel that the benefits of having their stories available on Google News outweigh any disadvantages. Rupert Murdoch is among them, if we accept the adage that "actions speak louder than words."
why should he opt out? he wants the traffic. he just wants google to stick with headlines and snippets that don't keep the users from visiting the site.