extremely interesting

Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press (usually his own outlets) that he might not say in the U.S. Of course, everyone in the U.S. picks up on it and it becomes a big story, as it did today after Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving searchers full access to articles on the Wall Street Journal's website, WSJ.com. Asked whether he realized that Google was sending his news site a ton of traffic, Murdoch responded, ""We'd rather have fewer people coming to our Websites, but paying."If Murdoch wants fewer people coming to the WSJ.com and other news sites he controls, blocking Google from indexing those sites is the perfect way to achieve that goal. Just over 25 percent of the WSJ.com's traffic comes directly from Google or Google news, according to estimates by Hitwise. About 12 percent of that comes from Google News, and another 15 percent from Google search directly.

News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch set the Internet abuzz Monday after an interview appeared online in which he said the company is considering blocking Google from being able to search its Web sites. (…)(…) “I think we’ve been asleep,” he said. “It costs us a lot of money to put together good newspapers and [...] No related posts.

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch told Sky News interviewer David Speers that he will remove his news sites — The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Times of London and many more — from Google’s search index. I’ve posted the 37-minute interview here, and am working on excerpting the good quotes.

Yes, well. That won't 'drive' any LESS traffic to their websites than they have now. Cause the click count of one of them is pretty much 'floor'. Fox websites are silly, the content is hopeless. I am embarassed to admit, I actually worked on one of them. Blech!

Why is this fuck getting any money from the Internet? People are fools for funding him. It's simple really, stop buying what he's selling.

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