Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Would you pay for online news?

Everyone may have heard or read about Mr Murdoch started the ball rolling in getting news off Google search index, or anywhere in Google. Murdoch owns some newspapers as well news network or TV stations. Some other newspaper also follows to want Google to stop indexing their news. Reason as reported as the online news will be paid only. So if that is the case, Google should just drop their index. I don't think anyone would pay for news, especially online. News should be free. If I am to pay for news, I would rather buy a newspaper. No one get to restrict news since news happens in places that are no one's exclusive stories unless they are pre planned or someone's story. Public news are readily available to anyone willing to write or report about it. So if Google doesn't have your news links, they have links from others. It makes no sense to drop news but then there maybe more than what we expected. MS involvement. It is up to readers to decide what kind of partnership happens, it there is one. Whatever it is, feel free to make all news paid only. I could turn to the radio for my news updates. When the newpaper drop their news from the net, I stopped surf to their site. News are everywhere, just not worth your penny to pay for them online.

http://www.lockergnome.com/theoracle/2009/11/30/the-murdoch-effect-already-felt-in-the-uk/

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