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Would Top Sites Really Opt-Out Of Google Based On A Microsoft Bribe?
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| Every so often, internet pontificators try
| to come up with ways to "kill Google." It's
| a silly game, but in an oddly timed move,
| three people (who have all put forth "how
| to kill Google" ideas in the past) all
| suddenly published similar ideas, yet
| again. Jason Calacanis, Mark Cuban and Tom
| Foremski all posted similar ideas about how
| certain sites (such as the top sites in the
| top search results) could all choose to
| opt-out of Google and, say, join another
| search engine like Bing. It's one of those
| ideas that sounds good for about 5 seconds.
| And then you actually think about it.
| First, the numbers being tossed around
| concerning how much it would cost, say,
| Microsoft, to convince most of these sites
| to opt-out of their number one driver of
| traffic is significantly higher than what's
| being mentioned in these articles. Many of
| these sites rely on Google traffic to make
| a ton of money, and they're not going to
| throw that away easily.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/1153526971.shtml
Challenging Rupert Murdoch to go ahead and block Google Search
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| Rupert Murdoch is simply looking for
| publicity when he says he âmayâ want to
| block Google search. We all know he do not
| want to. This is because unless he has an
| extremely incompetent IT department (which
| he donât), they will tell him inserting a
| simple robot.txt will do the trick. Google
| (and Microsoft and Yahoo and other
| reputable search engine had been honouring
| robot.txt file for ages.
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http://ctrambler.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/challenging-rupert-murdoch-to-go-ahead-and-block-google-search/
Twitter urges Murdoch to be open
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| Newspapers should become "radically open"
| if they want to make money in the online
| world, the co-founder of social networking
| site Twitter has said.
|
| Biz Stone said that he would "love to see
| what happens" if newspaper mogul Rupert
| Murdoch went ahead with plans to block
| Google from his websites.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8368750.stm
London Evening Standard slashes distribution costs by going free
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| The London Evening Standard has slashed its
| distribution costs from 30p a copy to just
| 4p since going free, its editor, Geordie
| Greig, revealed today.
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| Greig said the paper â which axed a 50p
| cover price to become free last month, more
| than doubling its circulation to 600,000 â
| had been spending 12p a copy on newsagents.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/17/london-evening-standard-distribution-costs
Sources of subsidy in the production of news: a list
http://jayrosen.tumblr.com/post/243813457/sources-of-subsidy-in-the-production-of-news-a-list
Recent:
Newspaper Industry Lawyers Attack Fair Use, Claim Google Is Illegal
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| Hmm. So, on Monday Rupert Murdoch suggests
| that the courts would reject fair use as a
| concept, and by Friday two newspaper industry
| lawyers just happen to have an op-ed piece in
| the Wall Street Journal explaining how Google
| violates copyright law by caching the
| websites it indexes.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091113/1357386926.shtml
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