The problem with Murdoch's theory is that you need to have an audience and constantly have masses of people flooding the website so by hiding those site from Google, it is really a bite in the foot. Ask yourself one thing... whenever you search for something, anything what do you use to search for it, answer: Google? so clearly by severing the connection between the source of the information and the end user, you are limiting yourself in a bad way. Secondly, I think they should do a survey on how many people would actually pay for news on a website they can easily get for free elsewhere. Ill take an educated guess and say that not many people would pay for it, especially the younger generation.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Rupert Murdoch Plans to hide his sites from Google
An interesting interview with with media mogul Rupert Murdoch talks about how he plans to hide his news sites from Google. This will mean that when you search Google for news, you will not be able to see Murdoch's News Corp sites such as Sky, FOX News, and The Wall Street Journal. In effect this is a plan to stop other media sources from "stealing" news from their articles. Also Murdoch plans on making readers pay for the news they read. Already you are only able to read the first paragraph of the of articles on the Wall Street Journal site, but if you wish to read further on then you have to pay for it. Murdoch believes that if people buy newspapers then why cant they buy news online. He states that he would much prefer to have fewer visitors to the sites willing to pay for their news, which he believes would make a quality audience.
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