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Murdoch and Microsoft: When no one wants to buy your content, take it offline!
app103:
If you are curious as to whether or not you'll ever miss News Corp related content in Google, take a look at this: http://valleywag.gawker.com/5412151/a-glimpse-of-google-without-news-corp-no-big-loss/gallery/
zridling:
Wow, that explains a lot. Thanks April.
zridling:
Can anyone setup a greasemonkey script to exclude all of Murdoch's sites from Google search results? :P
app103:
Can anyone setup a greasemonkey script to exclude all of Murdoch's sites from Google search results? :P
-zridling (November 25, 2009, 11:35 PM)
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Sounds like a coding snack. Make a list of all the sites and post the request. (I'd use it)
EDIT: I found this one but I am sure it doesn't block it all, and it's only for Google News: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/61545
Jimdoria:
Thanks to Oshyan's kind words, I expanded on this idea a bit and reposted it on Facebook. Here's the gist of what I added.
I think what Microsoft gets out of this is market share. Google owns search right now, and MS can't break in.
But if search can be "politicized" to the point whera a large number of conservatives feel they have a reason to stop using Google, they'll take their business elsewhere - probably Bing, since that's where the Fox stuff is. This would be a big win for MS. They could gain a substantial amount of market share all at once - and the increased ad revenue that comes with it. It would be a much bigger piece of pie than just the revenue from ads served up next to NewsCorp content.
Ruthless marketing has always been the MS ultimate weapon. It's how they best competitors - even the ones that are technically superior. In fact it wouldn't surprise me to learn that this idea originated with them.
The whole thing is at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/notes/jim-doria/what-is-rupert-up-to/213335101214 if anyone cares to read it.
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