Rupert Murdoch plans to sever Google's access to News Corp. content and have Microsoft exclusively index articles from popular newspapers worldwide.
Rupert Murdoch, one of the world’s most iconic media tycoons, has fired off another salvo against online search engines that aggregate news stories. The main culprit drawing Murdoch’s ire is Google, which grabs the headlines and summaries from online news websites and blogs and ranks them on the Google News service. The print mogul’s complaint stems from the traffic Google generates on the back of content generated by media outlets. As part of his battle against the world’s largest search company, Murdoch is attempting to broker a deal with Microsoft that would see News Corp content suppli…(more...)
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