SocraticGadfly: Murdoch ready to cut Google out of the loop?

November 09, 2009

Murdoch ready to cut Google out of the loop?

Rupert Murdoch says that, as part of putting paywalls up on News Corporation websites, the company will remove its articles from Google searches. Sounds like a smart idea.

And, he claims it’s what the Wall Street Journal already does with the part of its content that is paywalled. However, that’s not exactly true:
Users who click through to screened WSJ.com articles from Google searches are usually offered the full text of the story without any subscription block.

Sounds like you might want to fix that.

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