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July 02, 2005
Premium Content from Google and Yahoo
Rumors are flying about a Google plan to offer previews/snapshots of for-fee content in their search results. (See Gary Price's article News of a Google "Premium Content" Program Begins Surfacing.)
I love this idea. We all know that everything is NOT free on the web, and that sometimes you have to pay for quality content. Depending upon what you're looking for, you certainly might be willing to pay for it if you only knew it was out there. If you see it in Google search results, you can make the decision whether it's worth the money. [Via LibrarianInBlack]
Yahoo's take on this same idea, Yahoo's Search Subscriptions, is already available in beta. There are several major publications available, such as the Wall Street Journal (last 30 days), Consumer Reports, and Financial Times, among others. I'd like this idea a bit better if the premium content being provided was available on a pay per view basis, instead of requiring a monthly subscription. On the other hand, I have a monthly subscription for Consumer Reports, and searching it via Yahoo is handy. For Barbara Quint's take on Yahoo's Subscriptions, see her Newsbreak, "Fee" Web Content Accessed by Yahoo! Search Subscriptions. According to Barbara, Factiva and LexisNexis content will also be available within the next few weeks.
For detailed information on the content scheduled to be offered, see another Barbara Quint Newsbreak, Varying Content Commitments from Vendors for Yahoo! Search Subscriptions. Note that the Factiva content will be limited to articles aimed at the general consumer market, such as entertainment and sports.
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