Bing Tries To Buy The News – washingtonpost.com — Read this whole article. It’s disgusting.
Murdoch keeps threatening to stop letting Google index the WSJ.com and his other media sites, and wants other news sites to join him in this self-imposed silence. The folks at Microsoft’s Bing think this is a great idea. Not only that, but the FT reports that Microsoft is in fact in discussions with News Corp. and other publishers about the possibility of paying them to remove their sites from Google’s search index. This report comes on the heels of a meeting in Europe where Bing dangled the prospect of premium spots in search results to publishers and outright money for search R&D.
I can’t even remember the last time I accessed WSJ. Rupert can take all his content and be ignored by everyone on the Web.
For search, I use Google, and sometimes Alta Vista when I need Babelfish. Bing has a cluttered interface that bugs me.
Uhh, last time I looked Fox/News Corporation wasn’t a news outlet per se, they were a propaganda outfit.
Heck, if they want people to pay to read their propaganda, they will just get fewer followers.
The ones who they are usually targeting don’t have the money to buy their product, so why they just throw them under the bus is beyond me. But hey, Murdock is kind of a weird guy anyway.
Welcome to the Fox Full Spin Zone.
#18:
“Microsoft is slowly devilving. They did great things until the early ’90’s, the missed the boat on:”
Sounds like IBM in the 80s. Microsoft will survive. They’ve got the best R&D division since PARC.
This sounds like an old media attempt at controlling the web. Build an exclusive web search engine, wait until it’s popular – because no one will use the broken competitors. Start charging the small guys for inclusion. Eventually charge users a subscription for access. A decade later, we have a proprietary search interface to the web. It sounds paranoid but something similar happened in the 80s and 90s with satellite TV.
I go to bing if that thing can yield more results then Google!
Losing all the righwing biased commentary from WSJ, heck I’d pay for that!
Bing and Murdoch want to give that to me for free, sounds like a great deal.
You know, IF it happens, I’ll miss the WSJ links. Not enough to switch to Bing.
I have nothing against MS and Murdock trying this. I think both will find they just lost a lot of money but that is what is great about the free market system. People can try new ideas and get rich or go broke. Okay Obama and the Dems might decide they are to big to fail but baring that…
Turns out it MUCH more than just Murdoch wanting to do this. ALL THE US NEWSPAPERS WILL WANT THIS ACTION. I say, good for Microsoft having the guts to try something different. Maybe if Google has some real competition, they will be forced to return to their roots and provide a real search engine, instead of a starting point for a manual search. Not that Bing is any better, but Google has gotten really crappy in the last couple of years.