Internet masterminds realised you can get people to do almost anything (like, say, share their banal restaurant visits with friends) if you make it a pseudo-game. Now Google’s piling on! Reading news will let you collect badges and level up. More »
The days of bypassing subscription fees on Google News appear to be numbered now that Google has updated their First Click Free program. Publishers can now limit access to five articles per day before readers are routed to payment pages. More »
Rupert Murdoch — owner of some of the finest and fairest news organisations in the world, true beacons of journalism — is thinking about retiring all his content from Google. Well, Señor Ruperto, apparently Google doesn’t give a goddamn about it: More »
