Did Rupert Murdoch’s Threats Intimidate Google?


I often read news via Google News.

Sometimes, if I am not careful, I click a link and end up on a Fox News web site.

I did find this annoying, but thought no more of it until today.

I noticed that almost all the top links to the stories take you to Fox News web site.

I was going to find a way to ask Google not to do this, when I realized that this might actually be something that Google is doing on purpose.

Have they made a pact with the devil to feature his web sites? He did threaten to forbid Google from searching his web sites for items to be linked to. He was going to take his business to Microsoft. He pretended that this was a revenue sharing issue. Perhaps he was really trying to get a monopolistic, competitive advantage over other news sources.

You don’t hear anymore about this threat. Is this the deal that Google had to make to keep him from carrying out his threat?

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