Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has backed down from blocking Google and says that he will let the search engine index his newspapers. Murdoch went to war with the search giant over how and when it peers into his content, going so far as to call it "a...
The big, recent example of this phenomenon is the “HackGate” scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which hit the headlines at a fortuitous time for the Huffington Post (an AOL site that I work with).
Not to be outdone by Rupert Murdoch's The Daily, Yahoo is launching Livestand, "a digital newsstand that continually offers new content to consumers, based on their interests," the Yahoo News Center reported.
Okay, so maybe Rupert Murdoch will get the last laugh. But when the introductory offer of "£1 for the first 30 days" expires, will readers of The Times search for their news content from other providers?
Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch's threat to block Google from being able to search its Web sites. In November 2009, I posted, "Murdoch to Google: Drop Dead. I said "maybe Murdoch should think twice before pulling the plug on 25 percent of WSJ.com's...
Apparently, NewsCorp is also set to remove itself from the aggregation and archive service Nexis (part of LexisNexis) and plans to "still keep contracts with other news aggregators, among them Factiva, the competitor of LexisNexis that was...
Is Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp.crazy like a fox, or is he about to turn the best selling Sunday broadsheet in Britain into a newsletter? At SES Chicago 2009, Jeff Jarvis said that the big old publishers, such as...
But it appears that Rupert Murdoch is trying to shift the blame for News Corp's inability to adapt fast enough to the new "link economy" by stirring up what Jarvis calls "Google bigotry. What would Google do, Jeff Jarvis, slams Rupert Murdoch over...
Follow his keynote, I interviewed Jarvis about comments he made about Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. I wanted to know if Jarvis thought Rupert Murdoch was bluffing. What would Google do, Jeff Jarvis, slams Rupert Murdoch over Google's role at SES...
This is useful if you want to "de-index" (yeah, we're looking at you, Rupert) from News Search but still be included in Google's main search - or vice versa. Google is attempting to appease paid content providers with a couple of new updates to...
Two weeks ago, I commented on Rupert Murdoch's threat that News Corp.was thinking of blocking Google from being able to search its Web sites: "Murdoch to Google: Drop Dead. And Murdoch needs to learn that his news content doesn't send traffic to...
Founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch claims Google is stealing their content - the "content kleptomaniacs" as he has termed them. The UK Telegraph quotes an unnamed Google spokesperson suggesting Murdoch just tell them they want to be dropped from the...
Sky News - Interview with Rupert Murdoch Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch didn't really tell Google to drop dead. What Murdoch did say in a Sky News interview today was that his company is considering blocking Google from being able to search its...
Rupert Murdoch inherited a few newspapers in Australia decades ago that were in the red. Murdoch announced this week that he wants all of News Corp.s online news content to embrace the paid model. Murdoch risks losing all that he's built if he goes...
Of course, Miller's boss, Rupert Murdoch has recently been loud and clear on his intent to monetize newspaper websites via a pay wall. It's too easy to find out about news for free (say, on Twitter). He's been out there expressing his hope for...
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation acquired MySpace in June 2005. Hulu is NBC Universal and News Corporation's online video joint venture. Flickr is a video and photo-sharing site that has two main objectives: help people make their content...
News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch Murdoch, owner of The Wall Street Journal, doesn't have such a bleak outlook: That doesn't mean Google isn't a direct competitor to print newspapers that fight for reader attention with Google News (and...
Chairman Rupert Murdoch said that News Corp will not be bidding on Yahoo. Murdoch to Yahoo: I'm Just Not Into YouAt the Bear Sterns conference in Palm Springs, Florida, this morning, News Corp. While admitting that it would be fun to beat Microsoft...
Murdoch Wants to Trade MySpace for Chunk of YahooGot to love the aggression of Rupert Murdoch. We've collected all the search engine news from selected posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related...
TrueLocal Australia Users Crash Into TrueLocal North America - A new Rupert Murdoch/News Corp/News Interactive-backed truelocal service has launched, only to find users going to a different TrueLocal already established in North America.MORE”
