Factiva chief: Google not a threat

An Anonymous Patron writes Here’s An Interesting NYTImes piece on Factiva. Factiva’s top executive has dismissed suggestions that the company’s paid search services are under threat from high-profile free rivals such as Google. She says that while it was useful for generic information, news access required a more sophisticated approach. One restriction on a service such as Google News, which claims to index more than 4,500 news sites, is that it can’t provide access to articles on subscription sites.”