Originally posted at 73 Wire Business and Technology
Rupert Murdoch is trying to have a “Pay to Play” scheme for his news stories. As much as I like Fox News and other entities he owns, this is going to backfire on him. Google is still the top search engine on the internet and if you pull news stories from Google, your readership will drop. If Murdoch thinks this will change the direction of newspaper’s decline, he is sorely misinterpreting the public and how they search for news. This will only help places such as 73 Wire and other upstart news sites. This will be about as bad as AP charging to copy any of its content online.
Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact
Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry…..
With many more places to get news information, trying a stunt like this will not help the failing newspaper industry. People want to be able to find their news fast and easily, and Google is number one in the search engines. Bing,which is Microsoft’s alternative, in not getting the amount of searches that deem this to be financially or a business worthy effort.
via Mashable
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