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Google and Murdoch – a divorce made in heaven?
It’s about money, but not bribes from Bing Analysis Microsoft is known for its robust methods, but the widespread belief that it is attempting to ‘buy’ the news, offering to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to de-index its news sites from Google speaks of extreme brutality, even by the Borg’s standards. And think, people – if Microsoft really is offering to bribe major publishers to dump Google, might not the regulatory authorities have something to say?…
Continue reading »The Grinch II, starring Ruper Murdoch
If Rupert has his way, no one will be able to do anything online without first paying a fee. To him. Especially Gargle.
Continue reading »Google vs Murdoch, Twitter and Facebook
Is there life after Google? Australian media billionaire Rupert Murdoch is betting there is. He “reckons net access content is worth money,” said p2pnet yesterday, going on, “ Lots of money.
Continue reading »Time to pay for the net: Rupert Murdoch
ACTA — the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement — is of deep interest to anyone who’s the least concerned about the net. Last week, “the United States met behind closed doors with dozens of other countries in Seoul, South Korea to consider a global agreement on the enforcement of intellectual property rights,” said KEI and Public Knowledge , going on: “This agreement, though named the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), implicates changes to international intellectual property norms far broader than its name suggests.” ACTA has also been called the Hollywood Dream . But movie moguls, not to mention Big Music, aren’t the only ones watching its progress.
Continue reading »Murdoch threatens to yank News Corp. from Google News
Google: Go ahead, make our day Rupert Murdoch says his company will forbid its content from appearing in Google search results once pay-walls are set up across News Corp websites.… ?
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