Nov 09
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has said in an interview with Sky News Australia that newspapers within his empire – including the Sun, Times and Wall Street Journal – could block Google searches entirely once they had enacted plans to charge people for reading their stories on the web. In the last few months, Murdoch has got into a war of words with Google, accusing the search giant of “kleptomania” and being a “parasite” for including bits of articles from Murdoch's news websites in its free Google News service. According to the Guardian, when Murdoch was asked why they hadn't simply opted to remove their websites from Google's search indexes, he said it is on the cards.
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