Comments on: News Corp Going For Pay – Gone From Google In “months”

By: Carmelo

Carmelo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:40:07 +0000

Hear, Hear!

By: Carmelo

Carmelo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:38:01 +0000

I can understand why Microsoft wants this deal. They are trying to gain any edge they can on Google (probably out of desperation).
Microsoft should be focussing on innovation (as Google do) and not on this closed/stiffling business model.
If this goes through and other News providers follow suit, then start the campaign to boycott Bing! Microsoft will soon realise that Internet users are what matter!

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By: libhomo

libhomo — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:27:25 +0000

Psssst. Don’t tell Murdoch this. Google News would be so much better without his crap in the way of real news.

By: libhomo

libhomo — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:26:42 +0000

This is so exciting. Is Murdoch really going to make Google News more usable by clearing out all of his useless propaganda? That would be the first good thing Murdoch ever did for the web.

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By: Jon S.

Jon S. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:02:05 +0000

Faulty logic alert! Murdoch and his advisors are making assumptions that have little basis in practical reality.
Many of us don’t want to pay for news content. So what! There are a substantial number of people who will begin paying (grudgingly, perhaps) for content they previously accessed at no charge to them. That’s a fact.
Hiding your site from Google ensures missing out on lots of people who don’t mind paying for a subscription, even if they accessed the information for free previously.

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:00:44 +0000

http://sanitypreferred.blogspot.com/2009/11/newscorp-v-google.html

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By: ambrose

ambrose — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:49:26 +0000

This is not exactly true, for a couple of reasons.

First, someone else in Asia has already pulled off enabling a pay wall (Apple Daily / Next Media), though they still leave themselves in Google (just the headlines to lure people to pay).

The same example, however, also shows that people may still get access to the contents. Someone *might* just pay and then post the content somewhere else for others to read (and of course this means people can still search for it in Google, Bing, etc). This is not supposed to happen, but it has.

But seriously, I don’t know if any of this matters at all. If we can stop reading newspapers, we can stop reading online newspapers too. I don’t know if it is us losing or them losing, but I suspect the latter.