The 'Block Google' Movement Picks Up Steam With Two More Companies Joining Murdoch

Execs at MediaNews and A.H. Belo said that they may pull their content from Google, joining Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in flirting with the idea.

MediaNews, the company that owns the Denver Post, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other dailies and weeklies, has been talking about paid content since forever (CEO Dean Singleton is also chairman of the AP) but making one’s paid content invisible to the biggest search engine takes cojones to say the least.

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