Microsoft Paying Sites to De-list From Google?

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]maydaynomore[/nom]Already switched. Loving Bing. Used Google for about 10yrs. (still using Gmail) Google is great, but, for me, Bing is more user friendly.[/citation]

It's a search engine, how can it not be user friendly? You insert something for search and you get pages...how hard is that?

 

[bk420]

Sounds like another Anti-trust case...OH JOY.

 

[jmssmj]

In portuguese:

Penso que essa atitude da Microsoft demonstra um desrespeito para com seus consumidores. Penso que para a boa concorrência são melhores as idéias renovadas, novas opções de acesso, novos conteúdos, etc. Quanto à decisão do Senhor Rupert Murdoch, Eu acredito que esse está pensando em quanto vai faturar e não em quanto será útil para a humanidade.

 

[mayne92]

Until my preferred search engine doesn't give me what I want...why switch?

 

[thebobofbobs45]

MS the company that does not innovate only replicates... netscape is good we make ie, search is good we need one to. is office the only thing MS made?

 

[adbat]

I will never switch o bing becous it is microsoft search engen - I can pop in to it bu I will stick with google - they play fair so far. If google changes its ways I will switch to some other company that plays fair - not microsoft they have a lot of fixing to do before I consider anything more than windows for my private use.

 

[portuguesemafia]

Every company plays dirty. Not surprised they would do something like that.

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]sunflier[/nom]The ill informed think just because somethings "free" it must be great. People are so naive.Every single time you use your "free" Chrome they learn something about you.[/citation]

...I figure this about all major corp software...and don't care. They can look at what porn sites I look at for all I care...

 

[rags_20]

You'd expect Bing search to ask you to clear off when you search for 'google'. But it actually gives results.

 

[cyberkuberiah]

repeat with me slowly , everybody wants to be in business . when we'll all understand this simple fact , every man for himself and every company for itself , it wont be a second coming , but a starting point of worldly wisdom .

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]thebobofbobs45[/nom]MS the company that does not innovate only replicates... netscape is good we make ie, search is good we need one to. is office the only thing MS made?[/citation]

Exactly...their innovation is very limited for the size of what M$ is...they just want a hand in everything...

 

[sailfish]

I choose my search engine based on which consistently provides me the best results. Since I very seldom am looking for items related news and entertainment, this move won't make much difference to me.

With that said, I find nothing wrong with content providers seeking monetary compensation for the content they provide, nor do I see anything wrong with Microsoft apparent interest in purchasing it. It would only be unfair if the content providers didn't offer the same deal to other search engine companies.

 

[slayer_ken07]

GOOGLE NEWS coming soon !!!

 

[Guest]

I won't change. Those companies will lose me and a billion of internetters around the globe!

 

[thearm]

[citation][nom]ltgrunt[/nom]Not having to deal with News Corp.'s tastelessly one-sided smears and propaganda is a significantly good reason to never ever leave Google.[/citation]

You mean the tasteless one-sides smears from the media as a whole? I agree.

 

[Parsian]

Hey, wasnt this the came with INTEL and AMD?

 

[Guest]

I had try to remove news corp from Google news. This will be peachy.

 

[Guest]

no;I'll stay with google; bing is mistake

 

[Guest]

Certainly not! I would stick with Google even if all the news agencies went with Microsoft. Anyway, what's the point using Microsoft if those news agencies are pay for content websites?

 

[fuser]

[citation][nom]thebobofbobs45[/nom]MS the company that does not innovate only replicates... netscape is good we make ie, search is good we need one to. is office the only thing MS made?[/citation]
Tell me how this is different from other companies. Do you think Google was the first search engine or netscape was the first browser? No. They took existing ideas and made improvements. There are very few original ideas out there.

 

[Regulas]

Bye bye Murdoch, you won't be missed.

 

[fuser]

I think the big question is can Murdoch make a pay for news service work. It's not like he's going to delist from Google and give the same content away on Bing. I doubt MS will pay him enough to cover what he's hoping to make on his news services. If he succeeds - by going with a pay service through Bing, or some other route - then many other services will follow and free "news" will only come from bloggers and tweeters.

 

[h83]

Typical Microsoft business, trowing money like mad to make something succeed, and the worst part it´s that normally it does...

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]lvlouro[/nom]Question nº1 how can this be legal in any way???[/citation]
Question 2, give me one good reason why this is ILLEGAL?

I, as a content provider, can choose to have it listed by whoever I damn well please. You, as the search engine copmpany, do not have a sovereign right to list my content without my say so. You charge me for the privilidge of listing, so if I stop paying you I should be cut off. If I so feel like it, as a content provider, I can ask that now we are no longer doing business, would you mind not linking my content because it belonds to me, not you. I, as a content provider, now decide to use another search engine to list my content, this search engine has ideas that are in line with my pay-for-content idea and I, as a content provider, like this very much.

News Corp is a customer. Google missed the golden rule of customer service. Give the customer what they want.

Google FAIL.

 

[necronic]

In answer to the question "will it make me switch" my answer is no. If I am looking for a specific news source, I don't need a search engine to find it, and if I am not, why do I need NewsCorp when there will be hundreds if not thousands of other decent enough news sites that will fill my need?

This move comes from a basic misunderstanding of the value of a search engine to the person using it. For some reason they think a search engine is like a store, with specific products on the shelf. By removing one product, and making it exclusive to their store, they feel they have made their store more attractive.

The reality, however, is that the product is the search engines ability to find a large variety of resources, not a single one. It would be analagous to removing your listing from the Yellow Pages to put it in another book thinking that could help you or the other book