Murdoch (Faux, WSJ) to ally with M$ Bing and pull content from Google

[MH1]

Heard this on the news this morning, couldn't believe my ears. Murdoch thinks it's a great idea to make a deal with Microsoft so that his content will only show up there and not in Google.

Okay I admit my first thought was "there's got to be an anti-trust violation in there somewhere" but my second thought was:

You mean I won't have Fox News articles showing up in my news searches on google anymore? Oh, whatever shall I do? :rofl:

Maybe I am missing something here but for now I am just going to enjoy it. Oh, and I won't bother checking out Bing.



for more, search on Google news for something like "Bing Murdoch google" But here's a couple:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,663067,00.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10403830-2.html

http://searchengineland.com/thoughts-on-bing-news-corp-opec-for-news-30307


(and I was surprised not to see this here. maybe someone posted when the news was fresher?)

[Old Codger]

1. Well

Having a little trouble seeing the down side of this deal, anyone wanna help?

[Initech]

2. His loss. I aint complainin'!

:evilgrin:

[MH1]

4. I can't shed any light either

:shrug:

[therealbarack]

5. The Ultimate Media Monopoly

Wow. Can anyone say "Rosebud?"

[HughMoran]

3. Yay!

fuck faux

No Bing for me then

[MH1]

6. Bing-0

no Bing for me either

(sorry couldn't help myself)

[HughMoran]

7. Bing-no

:P

[hay rick]

10. Perfect.

[Old Codger]

16. Yup

No bing for me either, it was not really in my plans anyway, was a bit ambivalent but this makes the choice easy.

[tularetom]

8. And he thinks this will make money for him how?

Maybe that's why he is a multigazillionaire and I'm not, but I just don't see any advantage for him doing this.

For me, I'll grant you, it appears to be a great deal. Never have to have that crap turn up in a Google search again.

I'm just sorry I didn't buy some Google shares last December when it was down around $250.

[msongs]

9. like google isn't trying to put a strangle hold on the internet for it's own profit. ok nt

[MH1]

11. oh I'm sure they are

but I still find this story interesting and amusing.

and I will still like google more, and Bing less, if one of the differentiators is where the Murdoch crap shows up.

[hay rick]

12. Microsoft strategy?

They want to make Google a Fox-News-free search engine. So their plan is to pay money to improve their competitor's product?????!!!

[MH1]

14. Seems like it...

anyway it works for me!

[RoyGBiv]

13. Was posted a few times yesterday ...

First reported in Financial Times, IIRC.

My thread got, I think, three responses, but I posted it early in the am. A later thread made it to the Greatest I believe but didn't get a ton of comments.

[PJPhreak]

15. Dogpile anyone? nt

[elehhhhna]

17. DO IT!!! Get that propaganda its own intertubes channel!!11!