News Corp has initiated discussions with Microsoft over a plan to have the media company's web content essentially delisted from the world's largest search engine Google, according to a report on Sunday in the Financial Times that cited a person familiar with the situation.
Microsoft, which owns rival search engine Bing, has also reportedly approached other media giants about having their content removed from Google search results as well.
The two companies have been linked discussing a web-search partnership in the past. During Microsoft's failed bid for Yahoo in 2008, the tech giant was reportedly in "serious" talks with News Corp to make a joint bid for Yahoo.
Rupert Murdoch — the chairman of a newspaper, TV and internet empire that includes The Wall Street Journal, Fox News and Hulu — warned earlier this month that his sites may soon disappear from Google's listings. Murdoch accused search giants of "stealing" his company's content during an interview with Sky News Australia.
For more on this story, see Report: Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites on CNET News.
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Why not say thanks for pointing out weaknesses and ridicule him for "ufo cover-up"? its a win win ! this is all major theater.
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"Critics of the media companies' bashing Google point out that if media companies were serious about not being indexed by search engines, they could accomplish the feat on their own by adding a robots.txt file to the root of their Web site containing a simple code that would prevent bots from indexing their pages."
CA 24 Nov 09 00:18 ReplySo why don't they?
Is it because google is numbe 1 search engine and if they do fewer people will find and use their sites and ad revene will plummet
muller6 25 Nov 09 11:10 Reply