So give a better one. Yahoo?
Any suggestions? I use ask.com or bing.
‘new paid content strategy’
Lol. I wonder how long that will last.
Btw, ‘More reason to change your default search engine from Google’
Why?
Google News is just a open source collector, its Murdoch not wanting to play ball.
It is easy enough to block Google’s spiders from crawling a website.
Well, he means that he is going to block all of the search engines as he doesn’t think very many of the readers find the sites via search engines.
He’s nuts, of course.
There have been articles on this in the past. Eventually all of the internet will be subscription based.
Even if the search engines didn’t pick up News Corp sites, if you knew the URL you could just type it in, right?
This will be a big mistake for News Corp because there many other free alternatives to it.
Free Republic has all the news anyone could ever need. It also has the best user comments and analysis of events.
Currently, if you go through Google (or seem to), you get to see the whole article even if you are not a subscriber. Just type refcontrol
into Google and scan the helpful suggestions that show up below the text box.
Prince Rupert wants those hits wherever he can get them. If he puts up his wall, folks will get their news somewhere else.
Their “paid for” strategy is very bad move whereas Foxnews is concerned. He needs to remember who made them # 1.
I’ve never figured out why media companies allow Google to link to their news stories. There’s no value-added for them. Murdoch’s right - people who look up news stories via search engines are worthless bandwidth hogs who add no value to advertisers on those news sites. And I write as one of those bandwidth hogs.
This isn't about Google blocking News Corp. It's about News Corp blocking Google and all other search engines.
Personally, I don't quite get how blocking some readers just because they came to the site from a search engine helps Murdoch's bottom line. FreeRepublic is searchable on Google. I'm sure that more than a few FReepers have found their way here as a result of a Google search.
Good point.