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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says he will explore ways to block Google from using news content from his global empire.
Speaking to Sky News Australia, the Australian-born billionaire said he would try to remove articles from Google's search indexes, including Google News.
The threat comes as on many occasions over the past months Murdoch has accused Google of being a "kleptomaniac", acting as a "parasite" for including news content from his empire, including the Sun, The Times and the Wall Street Journal, in its news pages.
The 78-year-old media mogul maintains that search engines cannot use headlines and paragraphs of news stories as search results.
Earlier this year, Murdoch announced that the websites of his News Corporation would start charging readers for access by June next year. He, however, said last week that the plan could now be delayed.
Reacting to Murdoch's threat to block Google, a statement for the search giant described Google News and web search as a "tremendous source of promotion for news organizations, sending them about 100,000 clicks every minute."
"Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don't," the statement added.
Murdoch said News Corp executives will completely remove their websites from Google's search indexes. "But that's when we start charging," he explained.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says he will explore ways to block Google from using news content from his global empire.
Speaking to Sky News Australia, the Australian-born billionaire said he would try to remove articles from Google's search indexes, including Google News.
The threat comes as on many occasions over the past months Murdoch has accused Google of being a "kleptomaniac", acting as a "parasite" for including news content from his empire, including the Sun, The Times and the Wall Street Journal, in its news pages.
The 78-year-old media mogul maintains that search engines cannot use headlines and paragraphs of news stories as search results.
Earlier this year, Murdoch announced that the websites of his News Corporation would start charging readers for access by June next year. He, however, said last week that the plan could now be delayed.
Reacting to Murdoch's threat to block Google, a statement for the search giant described Google News and web search as a "tremendous source of promotion for news organizations, sending them about 100,000 clicks every minute."
"Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don't," the statement added.
Murdoch said News Corp executives will completely remove their websites from Google's search indexes. "But that's when we start charging," he explained.