News Corp Sites May Be Removed From Google

[blackcauldron85]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Busine ... ogle_Users
(via tommy2.net)

I'm not sure what all the News Corp newspapers are...

Too many thoughts, not sure how to word them!

1. I know for me, most of the news I find (for Disney news, anyway; if I want to read about real news, I just go to Yahoo! News) has either been posted or linked to on other websites; I never go to real news sites (like CNN.com or newspaper websites) looking for Disney news. So, this won't affect that too much, unless the websites that I gather my news from will have a harder time of finding news.

2. Isn't the point of being in the news business to provide news? This might be withholding news from people. Not cool. (But, it's not like other newspapers, magazines, and websites aren't reporting on the same topics.)

3. Other newspapers/websites might be getting more readers/hits due to this, since those sites' pages will come up in the Google searches, while News Corp's sites won't be.

4. Related to #3, this could make people want to seek out other sources of news, if it bothers people, I mean. Kind of like a backlash...?

[SpringHeelJack]

Jeez. I mean, as a basic idea, I get this, but... Rupert Murdoch really is a *naughty word*.

[2099net]

Murdoch doesn't like organisations using his content? I wonder how he feels about this then:

Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright has complained after The Times copied his blogged tribute to Edward Woodward – and published it as if it had been a commissioned article. The Times on Thursday printed what it described as 'a clarification' which read: 'We have been asked to make clear that Edgar Wright's appreciation of Edward Woodward, which appeared in the paper on Tuesday 17 November, was abridged. The full version can be read at www.edgarwrighthere.com.' However, it made absolutely no mention whatsoever of the fact the item had been used without the author's prior permission. Which is interesting, in light of Rupert Murdoch's earlier reported - and somewhat holier-than-thou - attitude towards alleged plagiarism from items from his newspapers by other media outlets, is it not? 'Is it appropriate for a national newspaper to reprint my personal tribute to Edward Woodward as if it were an article written for them?' Edgar tweeted. 'They just lifted it from my blog without asking. And cut off the entire end section about my last meeting with him … I'm not talking about quotes. Am talking about the entire article. But with edits they made that make me look ill informed and unfeeling … Perhaps they would like to send the fee they would pay the commissioned writer of such an article to Edward's memorial...' Perhaps they would. But, I wouldn't bet on it.

http://keithtopping.blogspot.com/2009/1 ... es-of.html

Again, he wants one rule for him, another rule for the "plebs" by the sounds of it.