Wow. Just goes to show that the news dinosaur Murdoch still has a roar. His rant about free news on the internet seems to have hit home with Google with their latest announcement that they plan to limit ranking all free news.
Could this be the beginning of a new partnership. Has google got into bed with Rupert? Makes you wonder.
Reports in the Media Guardian say Google is to allow publishers of paid for content to limit the amount of free access internet users have to their websites from Google News.
The move comes after Murdoch's recent rant against google running aggregate news for free. Theft as he put it!
However, Google say publishers would be able to charge for their content and still make it available via Google following the changes announced. Mmmmm. We'll see.....
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