Interview: Google News’ Josh Cohen: Can The Aggregator Ever Win Over Publishers?

There’s no shortage of publishers who are eager to criticize Google (NSDQ: GOOG)—and specifically Google News. They accuse the company alternatively of building a business on the back of their content and not giving their original content sufficient visibility in search results. Despite high-profile efforts to reach out to publishers, including a keynote address by CEO Eric Schmidt at the Newspaper Association of America conference this spring, tensions remain high. Just last week, Italian regulatory officials searched Google’s offices in Milan, after publishers there complained that they could not pull their articles from Google News without losing their spots in Google’s search results…