Rupert Murdoch Could Block Google Searches Entirely
The 78 year old media tycon just might be shooting his company and shareholders in the foot if his plans to block Google from indexing his content go through.
In an interview with Sky News Australia, the mogul said that newspapers in his media empire – including the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal – would consider blocking Google entirely once they had enacted plans to charge people for reading their stories on the web.
“The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it – steal our stories, we say they steal our stories – they just take them,” he said. “That’s Google, that’s Microsoft, that’s Ask.com, a whole lot of people … they shouldn’t have had it free all the time, and I think we’ve been asleep.”
Additionally, Murdoch who owns MySpace has been struggling with competition from Facebook potentially could fall short of lucrative advertising revenue from Google. How ironic isn’t it that on one hand Murdoch would gladly reap the rewards of such a relationship with Google but on the other hand want to jeopardize the relationship.
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