Tech | November 09, 2009 | 20 comments

Murdoch threatens to remove News Corp from Google

source: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/08/rupert-murdoch-vows.html

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Rupert Murdoch has been talking about charging for content of his newspaper websites & he's now taking this a further step by threatening to take his content from search engines like Google to stop it from being indexed.

In an interview with Sky News in Australia, the News Corporation boss claimed that content aggregators steal content from publishers – describing them as "kleptomaniacs" and "plagiarists".

He hinted that he may also sue the BBC and said "And anyway, if you look at them, most of their stuff is stolen from the newspapers now, and we’ll be suing them for copyright.

“They will have to spend a lot more money on a lot more reporters to cover the world when they can’t steal from newspapers.”

Boingboing suggest this is merely fighting talk & conclude "Good luck with that, Rupert. have a delightful, Howard-Hughesian dotage, acting out a crazed, Moby-Dick dumbshow against the Internet, hoping that the world's politics and economies will reform themselves to suit your fevered imaginings. This is how history will remember you."

Do you think he can take on the might of Google or even successfully sue the BBC?

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/08/rupert-murdoch-vows.html

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  • zezofish
  • richjm
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      richjm  

    • Rupert, if you really care just talk to your techie people about robot.txt files. Within minutes, Google won't be able to index your sites. Unless this is all for the publicity or something. Hmm...

    • 2 years ago
  • Simon_Tsang
  • zphoenixdownz
  • cadex
    • 0
      cadex  

    • Rupert on the BBC and free online content

      "they don't charge for it, they just charge the tax payer" - Sooo...they do charge for it but they don't charge per website/article. You pay your TV Licence and get unlimited access to everything the BBC make or report on.

      "If the tax payer will pay me what they pay them then I won't mind" - That's just pure greed.

      "But we're better" - Hah, I think that's his senility creeping through there.

      Who is he trying to fool?!
      He sounds like he's jealous that the BBC charge anyone who has a TV in the UK with a yearly TV Licence and he wants a piece of it.

    • 2 years ago
  • Betico
  • Kaylon
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      Kaylon  

    • I might miss The Times, sort of.

      The Sun, The News of the World (should be known as The Opinions of Few) and Fox News, good riddance.

      If he makes it one step harder for those who believe anything they read in print to view his narrow opinions, then that's fine by me.

      I don't know why he thinks people are going to bother paying 'less then the price of a current newspaper' for an electronic version of a paper. Why click on The Times when you can read the full story on The BBC, The Guardian, The Indie...?
      If it's a controversial story I might read them all anyway, it's what the internet is for!

      Formats like Current are the way forward, user created content and social media led. Unless there becomes a blanket charge by all newspapers, I can hardly see this being a successful business move for Murdoch.

    • 2 years ago
  • michail77
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      michail77  

    • It's not hard to block web content from google as their bots respect the site's directives. So to say the are steeling is a stretch.

      Most companies work hard at how to craft their content's display in search engines. Otherwise you could go dark on the Internet.

    • 2 years ago
  • ozoneocean
    • 0
      ozoneocean  

    • Would we even notice if google stoped serving up Murdoch's second rate crappy news? He should just stick to the Simpsons, that's the only thing of worth he's ever been involved with in his entire life and even that's only tangential. As a fellow Australian I'm ashamed of him.

    • 2 years ago
  • s0uthc0ast
  • michail77
    • 0
      michail77  
    • s0uthc0ast:

      Huh?

      Google is one of the most powerful companies around. I'm sure their employees, investors and hordes of their paying customers would notice.

      The millions of gmail (and other google app) users would surely notice if google went away.

      People with google's G1 phone would be upset if google disappeared today.

      The tremendous amount of money google spends on R&D would be missed in the world of computer science if google disappeared today.

      Yahoo and Microsoft would surely be happy and notice if google disappeared today.

    • 2 years ago
  • CalgarC
  • Kaylon
    • 0
      Kaylon  
    • s0uthc0ast:

      I agree with Mikhail!

      I haven't used another search engine since I first found Google's search algorithms to be (IMHO) the most efficient, user friendly and intelligent.

      Then I tried their mail, and their photos and documents apps, and then the calendar, and then...

      What do you mean PAY for extremely good programming when I can get it for free?

      Don't be silly Rupert.

      - Oh dear, I'm a pimping Google.

    • 2 years ago
  • ZeldaMasterZapp
  • cynker
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      cynker  

    • oh no what ever will we do without ruper murcoch? - probably be less brainwashed while his political influence shifts away! good riddance! see you in hell murdoch!

    • 2 years ago
  • Mcellie
  • CalgarC
  • CarolineS
  • CarolineS
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      CarolineS  

    • Rupert Murdoch is unfortunatly a powerful man, who can probably do what he wants. But I doubt he will sue google or the BBC. Get back to controlling the minds of the illiterate masses with your collection of moronic newspapers such as the sun Mr Murdoch.

    • 2 years ago
  • hell0everything
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