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 Murdoch, Microsoft May Team Up to Challenge GooglePosted on Nov 23, 2009
Over the last decade, Google has ballooned into the many-headed online hydra we know it to be today, and despite grumblings about monopolies and a couple of legal tussles, the company’s viselike grip has seemed assured for years to come. However, News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch might be gearing up to challenge Google’s market dominance. Murdoch is making noises about blocking News Corp. content from showing up in Google searches; instead, stories culled from The Wall Street Journal and other publications under his corporation’s umbrella would appear exclusively under Microsoft’s Bing search engine results. So what’s Murdoch thinking? The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson offers some suggestions here. —KA
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By coloradokarl, November 24, 2009 at 3:14 pm #
Microsoft will slowly wither into the dust bin of old ideas…........
Report thisBy Leefeller, November 24, 2009 at 12:46 pm #
Since I have little use for Muddock and his alleged news, coupling with Microsoft provides an opportunity for me not to support two Monopolies for the price of one?
This could turn out to be like the gas wars of yor, only with many fewer competitors. So something like price wars between Costco and Wall-mart?
In the end we know what ever happens, will be for the good of the people.
Report thisBy fritz, November 23, 2009 at 9:31 pm #
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id love it if all murdoch content was barred from google - save me sifting through his bile - you it rupert! i dare ya! you wont, youre scared
Report thisBy John, November 23, 2009 at 8:22 pm #
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Rupert is just making noise. If he truly wants an end to indexing of his content, all he needs to do is put a plain text file in his web site document root, named
Report thisrobots.txt, and add a one line statement which tells google’s web crawler not to read the site. Google’s indexers honor robots.txt directives, as all honorable
decent web spiderers do.
By diamond, November 23, 2009 at 7:53 pm #
Completely futile. I heard a commentator in the know saying that nothing they do can stop the inexorable march of news addicts to the internet. Murdoch is a horrible old fascist, still firmly mired in the 19th century and his deal with Microsoft may yet attract the attention of anti-trust lawyers. Microsoft wants to grab Google’s market share but they’ve got no hope of doing that and as the commentator also pointed out, the media has had 15 years to decide what the future would be with the internet in the picture and they buried their heads in the sand and did nothing. No one trusts the mainstream media any more because of their endless lies and spin so it’s a self-inflicted wound. Murdoch is a fool if he thinks anyone cares what he does and a bigger fool if he thinks they’re going to pay him to lie to them.
Report thisBy skulz fontaine, November 23, 2009 at 7:43 pm #
That’s just like Murdoch to chain his Burns-esque ass to an albatross like
Report thismicrosoft. Hmmm, would that be Rhyme of the Ancient Fascist?
By Mary Ann McNeely, November 23, 2009 at 6:19 pm #
So? Does anyone reading this site care about the megalomaniac Murdoch and his lethal lies? If you want to swagger into Stalingrad naked and unarmed watch Fox News.
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