Microsoft and News Corp, Google out
The traditional newspaper and media companies are feeling the threat of Internet and its distribution rate. The Internet has left many printers to find ways to make profit of their contents, which unfortunately, is available online for free. However, these companies are trying to restructure their business models to go in line with the web, some ventures into social media, and Rupert Murdoch opted to remove News Corp from Google. News Corp’s newspapers include the Times of London, The Sun, Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.
Together with News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch, some publishers are considering to pull some of their stories from Google Inc.’s news site. Murdoch accused that Google is “stealing†from News Corp and planned to block the search engine from accessing its content. Despite of all the traffic Google directed to News Corp for free, Rupert Murdoch decided to pull out of Google. He already announced that readers need to pay in order to read his newspaper online. Microsoft and News Corporation have held talks about a deal to pay the News Corporation to remove its news websites from Google and display them exclusively on Bing.
On the other hand, Google responded by saying that news organization can opt to being de-indexed by search engines.
To ask the readers to pay for subscription is a very bold step by news organizations. How many readers will pay? Cannot be denied, loyal readers switch to Bing in order to continue reading Wall Street Journal and New York Post. Most of the readers will continue to ‘google’ for the same piece of news available elsewhere in order to continue reading. Those cannot find the contents after ‘google-d’ will forget those newspapers and carry on with available ones online.
Ben Parr suggested that News Corp should be doing instead is “finding more efficient means of distribution, leveraging its revenue-generating assets, exploring new methods of payments and encouraging innovationâ€. Of course, readers can always find other sources of the same news for free, instead of subscribe to paid news.
Malaysians are considered lucky because Malaysia major English newspapers, TheStar and NST have not opted to ‘force’ their reader to subscribe in order to read the news. No, not yet…
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