This hostility must seem perfectly sensible if...

4:08 pm - Mon, Nov 9, 2009: 10 notes

This hostility must seem perfectly sensible if you’re an old man who has your secretary find and print up Web pages on your behalf. But here’s a pro tip, Rupert: Old media doesn’t instant message those pages to your assistant’s Twitter, via Blogger, on AOL. She just does what your newspaper reporters and Fox News producers and sales executives and tabloid editors and attack-dog flacks and mid-level accountants do all the time every day: Sticks a hot, throbbing search query into Google and gets busy with a bunch of strange website she doesn’t subscribe to. Welcome to the internet.

Ryan Tate (via soupsoup)

gbattle sez:

As companies and individuals generate more and more indexable content, the idea of give a penny, take a penny for search in the face of such pissing matches by big media types like Murdoch becomes very possible. What if Google blocked access to their search from every IP address associated with Fox News and the WSJ? Are we seeing the first move toward embargoed access to search? Hmmm. Interesting times, stay tuned.