Rupert Murdoch could block Google searches entirely

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Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online.
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  • added November 09, 2009

52 comments // Rupert Murdoch could block Google searches entirely

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    This move by Murdoch will actully help the world in the long run. The less access that simple minds have to misleading information, the better. So, now people will have to pay to get their propaganda. Thanks, Rupert!!

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    bansheewail
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    Simply put, Murdoch is the definition of a Tyrant. The world would be a better place without him and those alike.

    dershope
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    big media is flailing, failing to deliver content in such a way so as to profit off it. don't their sponsors already pay them enough? I thought the media was supported by ads. wait maybe this could be a good thing, maybe if we paid for content then the news we received might not be so heavily slanted by sponsors.

    sk8bs55
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    LMAO The world would be better off with what content Murdoch could block from google. And the world still wouldn't pay for it. This guy does not yet understand how the intertoobz workz.

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    neocongo
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    Google could block Rupert Murdoch's threats entirely.

    FishaHouse777
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    Yeah, like I would ever spend my money on corporate media like the WSJ before I would on NPR or something of the sort. I hope this pushes google to simply promote more of the latter station's articles, Thank Rupe!

    Allorno1
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    i never clicked on his news stories before and i won't now or later

    bc_f
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    rupert murdoch can cry in his walled garden

    zphoenixdownz
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    i conjure images of old white men in suits around a boardroom table plotting.. next? patenting air and water and selling it back to us..

    vesher
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    Murdoch is a douche bag.

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    unimatrix0
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    He is wicked and heartless.
    I am quite sure there is a block already in the Google News section.

    CarolynGillis
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    This is pointless. Thwe man is delusional. Google will probably just stop indexing his crap news first, there plenty more stuff out there than crappy sky or fox news, or anything else Newscorp craps out.

    ozoneocean
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    The funny thing is, he can make it so you have to pay for the content, but there are so many ways around that. If there wasn't then things like Bit Torrent wouldn't exist.

    Varex_Sythe
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    While talking about limiting and eventually ending our freedoms, he is also wearing a poppy, the symbol of men and women who died trying to protect it.

    What sick irony.

    CalPal
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    please do.

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    logicpocket
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    This idiot should pack it up and go back to Australia where he belongs. This guy has created more political discord in this country then anyone except for maybe the Republicans

    panichead
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    could he do the world a giant service. and expire already...

    please, this clown is the worst thing to happen to media ever... he does not have news shows he has propaganda opnion shows pretending to be news shows.

    tommytripper
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    good luck with that.

    Tyrannous
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    Google blows for what they have done in China.

    samthesixth
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    I find it hard to understand his thought processes here. If he blocks googles bots so that fox pages are not indexed how will people find the stories they want to buy?

    I do not think he has thought this through very well.

    Still it has no effect on me becuase I do not fill my head with the BS that comes out of Fox anyway.

    slarabee
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    apparently he doesn't realize that half the new subscribers will just copypasta all the stories on plaes like current.

    maxjunk
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    A great idea to get rid of a lot of the distortion, now if only they could charge for spam also and get that blocked too.

    It would certainly clear a lot of the clutter since most of what Murdich spreads is just as bad as spam

    Argon18
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    Dosn't he know that Google is not the only search engine. Money Money Money

    LadybugLady
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    ...I just gave that big old Karma wheel a shove...

    eden49
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    haha.. old fart dip-sh*t... i'm glad he's going to pull off this crap from google. a word to google, let this old fart clench onto his newpapers and take them to his grave.

    Chheang
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