[LINK] If Google pulls search....

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm …

If it comes down to a choice between Google, and Rupert Murdoch’s right wing rags, ranting Fox News opinions and divisive demagoguery, Sky News and Sports, and News (in name only) Ltd journalism … I know which I’d pick.

Murdoch would like a return to the pre-internet 'good old days’  … with trapped advertisers and readers …  but that ain’t gonna happen and not have to change his business model. So his solution is to attack the Web …can anyone imagine the Web without hyperlinking? … or a search engine? … and feed off the Search Engines like a vampire.

If I was Google I’d simply stop indexing News Ltd/Fox/Sky pages on the Web, prune any hyperlinks to News Ltd domains (here and overseas) and give them no coverage or linking capability in their search engines and apps at all. Reduce their ‘presence’ to that which News Ltd can provide on their sites … and see how Rupert likes it. After a year of that we’d know for sure who needs who.

At the moment he’s acting like the soul destroying vampire he’s always been … feeding/sucking the life out of off government, third parties who deal with him, and now Google

I’d like to see Rupert/News/Fox/Sky stand on their own two feet and see how they can do without a full service Internet.

Just my 2 cents worth …
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> On 25 Jan 2021, at 8:57 pm, jwhit at internode.on.net wrote:
> 
> I'm so tired of ill-informed people in power screwing with stuff they
> don't understand to satisfy Rupert Murdoch, and lately, Peter
> Costello.