Murdoch wants to block websites for Google
Rupert Murdoch wants to block his media outlets' websites from search engines and news aggregators. In addition to Google, Microsoft and Ask.com are also facing criticism.
"These are people who just pick up everything and steal our stories," complained the entrepreneur, whose media empire includes the Wall Street Journal in the US and The Times in the UK, in an interview with Sky News Australia. Although the search engines ensured that more people clicked on the respective pages, they did not attract loyal readers. "We would rather have fewer users, but ones who pay," Murdoch continued. In his opinion, users should never have received journalistic content on the Internet for free. The Wall Street Journal already offers its content for a fee. If a user is referred to a newspaper article via Google search, they can view the first paragraph, but are asked to pay for the rest.
