Microsoft has offered to pay News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, and other publishers to block their content from Google. This is an effort to make Google cough up cash for news content as well, thus reducing its profit margins. And it also fits nicely with Rupert Murdoch’s world-view, to boot.

Google is unperturbed. It knows that news stories, once posted, become available everywhere, even from Twitter. As the haiku error message says:

The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist.

Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
on November 23, 2009 - 9:51 am

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