Rupert Murdoch could block Google searches entirely

Just do it then Rupert! Blocking robots is such a trivial thing to do why make such a todo about it. Why? Because there's more to it than this. He wants something. Not allowing indexing of his site is counter-productive as it limits the visibility of Faux News, ( a good thing, yes), but not a smart business decision for him.

keep your pay-for-lies garbage, Rupert... and now that I think of it, you can crawl back under that rock you crawled out from and die for all I care. P.S. I wouldn't let YOU pay ME to read your bull mess.

This Murdoch should be placed on the "Old wind bags that should die already" list.

I totally understand the motive, but the solution just proves he's a dinosaur from a bygone era. The reality folks is that nothing is free. Everyone is so used to really good news on the net cause newspapers and tv networks have subsidized it for so long, it's expected to be free. But therein lies the problem, the expectation is already set. There are other solutions to monetizing news. Just ripping out their content is going to be self destructive. I understand the need to keep the quality of the news up, but doing it this way has no vision and has already been proven to fail.

I predict that one day that a company with a philosophy like Amazon will become the leading news media organization in the U.S. and the existing industry will just go extinct. But stay as it is, forever, for free? Sorry folks that just ain't gonna happen.

Deport him and freeze his assets! He can consider it his "fair share" for the nation!

Great news! That means less Fox!

Isn't he dead yet?

So let this prick do what ever he wants It will have little or no effect on my world.

I want to agree, but look at everything else Good Ol' Capitalism gets its hands on. For example, take the food industry. Healthy, organic and whole foods seem to be expensive when compared to the cheap crap some major corporations spend time, energy and money to have it conveniently available for the masses. From marketing to the convenience of it all, it seems they would do the same to our sources of information. After all, knowledge is the most powerful tool of all, and uninformed society is better managed, manipulated and swayed then a well-informed one. Rupert Murdoch's involvement with limiting information, when he already contributes to the abundant disinformation, really ticks me off. I will not sit idly by as he makes matter worse.

The army should use Murdoch to sweep for mines. Just put him on the end of a stick and sweep it back and forth in front of the unit. Eventually he'll find one, and we can all get a break from his stupidity!

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.

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

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

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

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

Google blows for what they have done in China.

good luck with that.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Murdoch is a douche bag.

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..

rupert murdoch can cry in his walled garden

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!

Google could block Rupert Murdoch's threats entirely.

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.

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.

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

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!!