he doesn’t evcen have to “block” google.
Google fully respects the contents of a site’s robots.txt file - which is akin to putting up a friendly notice at the entrance that soandso (or veery robot) is not welcome there.
One line of text in that file on each of his sites, and Mr Murdoch’s content will completely vansih from Google over the course of the next weeks.
A nice letter to Google would also do the trick as well.
Murdoch is just a bloviating fraud here.
“Google fully respects the contents of a site’s robots.txt file”
Hmm. Debatable. If you put something to not be crawled in robots.txt they will crawl it just to find out what’s so interesting. They may not list it, but they go have a look anyway. Others don’t do that.