Murdoch and Microsoft: A New Media Model or the End of the Internet?
Today’s NY Times reports that News Corporation has begun early stage negotiations with Microsoft to remove its content from Google search results and intead make it exclusively available via Bing.
News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has engaged in early-stage discussions with Microsoft about a pact to get paid by Microsoft to remove its news content from Google’s search engine and be available on Bing, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke anonymously to discuss confidential negotiations.
It doesn’t take much extrapolation to imagine how this could have major implications for Google and its business model and for how lots of regular folks use and think about the Internet.
Given this information, Murdoch’s public musings last week make a whole lot more sense.
This is INSANE! Is Murdoch going to forbid public libraries from carrying his publications? Traffic is traffic, regardless of the search engine that generates it…which ultimately translates into more views and more potential revenue from Web ads or subscriber-based content.
This is nothing more than extortion attempt by Murdoch against Google. He’s the worst thing against the free flow of information since Pravda.
Comment by Norvell — November 24, 2009 @ 12:21 pm