By Ian Burrell

Google is on a mission to make itself more loved by the news industry.

For so long it has been regarded by newspapers as a threat, the great beast of faraway Mountain View which undermines their businesses with its disruptive algorithms. One of its most outspoken critics, the News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, compared it in 2009 to “parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet”. Even now, its name is invariably spat out by news executives (usually after the words “Facebook and…”), for siphoning away the digital advertising revenue they’d planned to depend on.

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Source: The Drum