News Corp. Digital Chief: Content Will Be Gone From Google Soon

One day after Rupert Murdoch’s number two Chase Carey was quizzed about the mogul’s plans for pay walls and Google, News Corp.’s chief digital officer Jonathan Miller said that the company would be removing its content from Google within a few months.

Speaking before the Monaco Media Forum earlier today, Miller said it would be “months and quarters — not weeks” before News Corp. moved to take its content from Google and similar search engines, but pointed out that the conglomerate could easily survive without the traffic driven to its sites through search:

“The traffic which comes in from Google brings a consumer who more often than not read one article and then leaves the site.

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