“ Evidence of his low confidence in the wisdom of erecting universal pay walls resides in the fact that he hasn’t built them, even though he’s been threatening to do so for months. And for evidence that he doesn’t really hate Google, look to his refusal to add to his sites the robots.txt file that prevents Google from adding them to its search database. Murdoch is simply jawboning. Three months ago he promised that News Corp. would start charging for its newspapers by June 2010. Now he doubts that the company will hit that mark. In typical Murdochian fashion, he’s sowing confusion and harvesting bewilderment. „
What’s behind Rupert Murdoch’s trash-talking of Google? - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine

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