Microsoft Wishing to Pay Publishers to Block Googlebot?
Google Blogoscoped Nov 23 09Financial Times reports that Microsoft has had discussions with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media company "over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to 'de-index' its news websites from Google". Talks are at an "early stage", an unnamed sourced told the Financial Times, however, "Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google's search engine". The biggest beneficiary in this, FT argues, could be the newspaper industry, many members of which don't seem to be happy in regards to how Fair Use scales in modern tools. Google themselves are no stranger of forming alliances . Full story...
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