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Murdoch could block Google searches
Murdoch admits online charging delay Murdoch's plan for paywalls 'raises questions of anti-trust law' More on charging for content Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online. In an interview with Sky News ...
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youtube.com — Sky News political editor David Speers talks to News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch about paywalls,... politics, and more. (more) Sky News - Interview with Rupert Murdoch (video)
Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google 'in months'
Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google 'in months'
telegraph.co.uk — Rupert Murdoch the head of News Corporation is prepared to remove his company's content from Google' search... index "within months" as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point. (more) Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google ...
Murdoch: We’ll probably remove our sites from Google’s index
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Murdoch plans to block Google News
TG Daily — ... and I think we've been asleep." Struan Bartlett, managing director of NewsNow, told TG Daily : "It's not clear whether Murdoch understands the difference between stealing and linking, or how he thinks blocking link aggregators would help him. If he stops Google or NewsNow from linking to his websites, people won't all simply start going to them directly instead. "When Murdoch starts charging, he's going to need sites like Google and NewsNow to drive custom to his websites." See Also The Guardian ...

News Bits: Major Brands Struggle to Take Back Twitter Accounts
Contentinople: — ... over ads hasn't stopped Verizon from taking yet another swipe at the telco in a new line of ads -- and using the same 3G coverage map that AT disputed in its complaint. Perhaps more important: The new ads -- in which the iPhone is cast away to the Island of Misfit Toys, for example -- are also shamelessly Christmas-themed, before Thanksgiving, no less.

Murdoch To Google: I Must Block You (Wait For It …)
Wired: Epicenter — ... We can’t do a better job than The Guardian has reporting Murdoch’s latest warning to the indifferent, a threat to exclude News Corp content from search engine discovery as part of a comprehensive plan to monetize online content. For the record, ...

Rupert Murdoch Wants News Corp Sites Off Google
Switched — ... to be removed from the index of search engines. According to the Guardian, Murdoch recently told the Australian press (video after the break) that stories from ...

Murdoch: We May Block Google [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... who simply just pick up everything and run with it — steal our stories, we say they steal our stories — they just take them,” Murdoch says in an interview with David Speers of Sky News Australia, which is one-third owned by News Corp. “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.” The move is aimed at Google, as outlined in this conversation: ...

Murdoch Says Fair Use Can Be Barred By Courts; Will Probably Remove Sites From Google
Techdirt — ... In the meantime, his explanation is really quite stunning. He claims that he believes fair use is a concept that the courts will reject: ...

Note to Rupert Murdoch: You Can’t Sell Stuff If We Can’t Find It
901am — ... “. That’s why News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch plans to block Google from indexing his media conglomerate’s newspaper content, in an effort to put it all behind a paywall. ...

Seafood Industry Fights NYT Story with AdWords Campaign
ClickZ News Blog — A few stories ClickZ's editors are reading: Seafood Industry Fights NYT Story with AdWords Campaign (Nieman Journalism Lab) Wrigley Drops Tribal DDB, Digitas and Agency.com for Digital (AdAge) Murdoch could block Google searches entirely (Guardian) AOL Laying Off 100 Today (ValleyWag) Twitter Hit Sh*t My Dad Says Heads to TV (Hollywood Reporter) RIM Unveils Advertising, Payment and ...

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