Comments on: News Corporation plans to remove sites from Google

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:03:16 +0000

Truly breathtaking arrogance.

By: tag44

tag44 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:34:19 +0000

Its really hard to get enough traffic without search engine help but let see what happens to the Murdoch site.

By: SEO Denver

SEO Denver — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:21:01 +0000

Readers will just go somewhere else unless the content value is that superior. Murdoch must know something the rest of us don’t if he is going to try this. This sure seems a good way to stunt one’s growth.

By: Carl Barron

Carl Barron — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:11:24 +0000

Cut your nose off to spite your face comes to mind.

Advertising revenue is News Corps biggest revenue stream by reducing access to your Sites will reduce revenues.

Signed Carl Barron Chairman of agpcuk

By: Chase

Chase — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:37:35 +0000

I like what Murcdoch does with his Fox News network. But his way off in his views of the Internet and he is going to fail miserably with his new “Paid Content” plan. The difference in the quality of content between his News Outlets and others such as the BBC is not great enough to warrant you and I to pay for his.

Now if he can create that difference of quality and make his media that much better than everyone else, than I can see it working. But fighting against the search engine (google, msn etc.) is only going to prove failure at the end of the day.

By: David Eaves

David Eaves — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:58:48 +0000

Link building suicide.

By: rob

rob — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:54:48 +0000

“readers who randomly reach a page via search” – would love to know where the random element comes in to qualified searches for information…

By: Background Check Inc

Background Check Inc — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:17:31 +0000

Sound like Rupert has the analytic’s to back up what he’s saying. Random traffic doesn’t convert for advertisers. No long tail in news stories. I’m probably in the minority but I actually find it refreshing that they’re looking at the traffic from an advertisers point of view.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:56:22 +0000

Will be interesting to see the subscription model.

By: Stephen Webb

Stephen Webb — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:06:22 +0000

This is another interesting development in the ongoing battle about free online news. From previous events it is clear that Rupert Murdoch does not like the idea of free news, and will do everything he can to start the process of charging for it.

Iâ€™m not surprised that he is suggesting this next step of completely block Google from finding news stories in the near future. Whether these will come back to hurt him is another matter.

Itâ€™s clear with the ongoing decline of physical paper sales that online news is becoming ever more important, and with the advent of more PDAâ€™s and portable readers this will continue. I wonder how long it will be until the first major news corporation starts charging for content.