News Corp. Ready To Un-Google?

News Corp may remove its sites from Google’s index within months.

Jon Miller, News Corp.’s chief digital officer, said that the company “could survive both economically and audience-wise without the search giant driving traffic to its sites.”

“The traffic which comes in from Google brings a consumer who more often than not read one article and then leaves the site. That is the least valuable of traffic to us… the economic impact [of not having content indexed by Google] is not as great as you might think.

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