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Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content
Hugh Pickens writes Weston Kosova writes in Newsweek that Rupert Murdoch gave an impassioned speech to media executives in Beijing decrying that search engines — in particular Google — are stealing from him, because Google links to his stories but doesn't pay News Corp. to do so. 'The aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content,' Murdoch says. 'But if we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid content, it will be the content creators — the people in this hall — who will pay the ultimate price and the content kleptomaniacs who triumph.' But if Murdoch really thinks Google is stealing from him, and if he really wants Google to stop driving all those readers to his Web sites at no charge, he can simply stop Google from linking to their news stories by going to his Web site's robot.txt file and adding 'Disallow.'"
seriously, do the world a favor and die
There's a very simple, mutually beneficial solution to this - Google should do Mr. Murdoch a favor and stop indexing his content.
That would hurt fox news fans! How are they supposed to get their fox news when their TV isn't plugged in? Are you suggesting that they bookmark the page or remember to type in "www.foxnews.com" in the other blank space at the top of their screen?
Think of all the poor IT guys who would have to deal with a class of irate users who are even more irate and armed than your usual users.
Think of how Glenn Beck would blame this on Obama and God knows who else.
Think of how Sarah Palin would start including google in her "liberal media" category.
Think of the angry protesters outside of google headquarters. I'm imaginging signs like "KEEP YOUR GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY INTERNETS" and "DOWN WITH SOCIALIST GOOGLE!"
Think of all the right wing organizations that would suddenly start giving ad money to Bing.
Actually, all that would be pretty funny.
Google Bot respects the robots.txt file... Rupert, use it or shut the fuck up.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Google should block every fucking IP address the fucking asshole has any stench on. All of it AND google should ban every fucking website that has even a hint of a link to his stench.
Fuck this ignorant neo-Luddite up the ass.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
And it should, because we are FAR better served as a country by having professional journalists and bloggers, than by having bloggers alone.
If you compare the education of the top journalists and the top bloggers, the top bloggers are better educated. They probably also actually work in the fields that they are writing about.
The sooner we get rid of the career path of "journalist" and the career option of "full time paid reporter", the better for all of us. I want to get my news from people who are actually professionals in the field they are writing about, who are on the ground and involved, not from someone who derives his power from a superficial understanding and being able to string together a few nice phrases.