Follow this link to the story about Google’s response to the Microsoft/News Corp initiative mentioned in my earlier blog post, Microsoft to Pay News Corp to Delist From Google.

I had suspected that there would be an ongoing negotiation between these businesses to split the profits in a new way.  I cannot believe that Google hadn’t had some method in the works to respond to the attack by Microsoft.  Microsoft’s initial ploy could never have passed anti-trust scrutiny in its major markets.

What has me a little confused though is that there are already numerous sites that are searched by aggregator sites like Huffington Post and yet have paywalls of various sorts.  Perhaps Huffington Post already pays a fee to these sites.