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At a recent meeting in Paris, head of Google News, Josh Cohen, met with the French media as part of an initiative by the French government to seek solutions for the survival of newspapers.

According to Pierre Conte, president of PubliPrint, "for all publishers, in the last few months, something in our relationship with Google has been broken.  Six months ago, we thought we had finally found the right business model, but now, with the current crisis, the change has happened very quickly in our mind with the new Google...You are becoming our worst enemy".

Pierre Conte, director of France's Le Figaro media group, explained today that the company's recent shift towards the Web was aimed at Le Figaro becoming the premier information site in France. Le Figaro also wants to have 20% of its sales originating from the web by 2010, and to increase its number of unique visitors to 10 million within two years.

Le Figaro's site includes general news (lefigaro.fr), as well as other sections such as the female-oriented lefigaro.fr/madame, the economics-oriented lefigaro.fr/patrimoine and the events-oriented figaroscope.

The group also has a job and real estate classifieds section provided by Adenclassifieds, as well as an e-commerce hub called Ticketac and Bazarchic.

Future plans include developing video content that will be broadast on the Internet, mobile platforms and TV. Conte wants to build media partnerships with other firms, in the manner of  MSNBC.

To boost online visitors to its site, Le Figaro intends to develop new ad formats, target specific audiences and increase the group's presence in e-commerce.

Source: Le Figaro through IFRA Executive News Service