Google Responds To Murdoch's Threats: Bring It
Yesterday, Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch complained that News Corp.’s content was being “stolen” by search engines like Google and Ask.com, and hinted that as soon as all his publications go behind a pay wall, he would force Google to remove them from their site’s directory.
And even though it makes little to no sense to take links to your pubs off of Google, today the giant corporation is playing along, telling Murdoch he is free to leave whenever he wants.
Google’s statement, from AFP:
“Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search.
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