7.“GOOGLE AND YAHOO- COPYRIGHT THIEVES”

While I was doing research about copyright issue in the net, I incidentally saw a title called”Murdoch Calls Google and Yahoo Copyright Thieves”. As you know Murdoch is the owner of the News Corp and one of the richest men in the world. He claims that Google and Yahoo are stealing their copyrights and help people to read news on the web for free. He thinks that’s got to change. Also he says that the News Corps properties would eventually be thrown up behind a pay wall, and Google would be blocked from searching them. And later on Google replies him that “Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don’t.” Google is the most known search engine in the net and I think it is one of the most important places that you can advertise your brand. I don’t know why he sees them as thefts. It gives the official site of the newspaper and it directly links to people to that site. He is furious about it, because he thinks that people prefers to read on net rather to buy it. But, he has rights to declare Google to stop giving places to his publications.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/murdoch-says-go/