Microsoft Finds A Chink in Google's Armor Named News Corp.

Two weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch announced that he would be taking content from his News Corp entities like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post off of Google’s search engines, ostensibly because the man doesn’t know jack about the Internet and can’t tell the difference between a search engine and an aggregator.

But as last night’s news broke that Microsoft, which just launched its own search engine Bing to compete with Google, is in talks with the Australian mogul in the hopes of paying him to remove his listings from its rival, we have to amend our previous statement.

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