Microsoft Paying Sites to De-list From Google?
Microsoft has reportedly asked News Corp to make good on its threat to de-list itself from Google and is offering the company an incentive to do so.
A couple of weeks back News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said he was considering blocking Google from indexing his news sites as part of the company's plans to push a pay-for-content business model. Now a report in the Financial Times claims that Microsoft is willing to pay Murdoch to do just that.
The FT yesterday reported that Microsoft had entered discussions that would involve the News Corp being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google. Microsoft is also said to have approached other publishers.
Neither Microsoft nor News Corp have commented on the report, which was published yesterday. But, if there's any grain of truth to the rumors and a deal like this comes to fruition, it will be a big advantage over Google for Bing and Microsoft.
If news publishers de-listed their content from Google but that same content was available on Bing, would you switch search engines? Let us know in the comments below!
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I'm sure it'll work really well for them. So well, I can't be bothered to draw any comparisons to anything else that has happened recently.
Typical ms tactic, if you cant come up with a better product try and sabotage the opposition.
Besides which, by the sounds of it if they want to delist because they want to go to pay-for-content then what difference would it make it they went to bing? Surely they would be in the same boat?
Removing your website from the listings of the world's overwhelmingly most popular search engine is a great business move.
Rupert Murdochs news not reaching as many people, this is a good thing.
oh god please not this! i can just imagine having a list of sites of which search engines i can use to access them >.< this is not good for consumer!
oh god please not this! i can just imagine having a list of sites of which search engines i can use to access them >.< this is not good for consumer!
naffers makes a good point... are we approaching a situation where you need to use different search engines depending on the content you wish to view?
This is a lose/lose.
seems a bit reminisant of the whole intel/amd war to me. i wonder how long itll take before MS(Bing) has to pay Google a payout to settle any anti-competitive law suits?
It does actually sound anti-competitive. This move (if it is true) can only serve to harm consumers.
Those who leave Google or it's indexing system can lose big time. Bing, although it's starting to move up in the world can't compete with Google , yet.
It does actually sound anti-competitive. This move (if it is true) can only serve to harm consumers.
Or improve the collective intelligence of the planet by removing a god-awful news site off of the net~
We can only hope!
Google will work there way around.
i dont really Care, i'm sticking with google