Google's position as a top news site traffic driver has put editors between a rock and a hard place -- should they take the leap to remove their content from Google and risk losing readers? Or should they allow the company to financially benefit from content it did not generate?

Writing for paidContent, media and internet consultant Arnon Mishkin offered news publishers a reality check: "Google is much less important than you think."

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