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.