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AP and Murdoch Problem Almost Solved

by Andrew McCaskey
Problem Almost Solved

Newsweek writes 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.

It is an impassioned plea that has risen up from the Associated Press and from NewsCorp – and they claim as the reason that ad revenues have dropped from about $750 Million a year to $700 million.

Weston Cassova calls BS: ” 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.’ ”

Simple and effective – if not dramatic “Yet neither AP nor News Corp. has taken this simple step to stop the marauding Google pirates from pillaging their cargo. Why? Because they know that their traffic would dry up overnight. They’d rather blame someone else for their failure to compete in a changing marketplace. They happily take all the customers Google sends them for free, and then accuse Google of theft. Classy.”

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