Smart move (maybe) - if Google is paying Twitter to get their content, why shouldn't Google be paying others as well? News Corp is a big entity - is it a loss for Google to lose all that content or a loss for News Corp? - Jesse Stay from Bookmarklet

Since News Corp suck at reporting and Murdoch is a greedy bastard, I say 'Good bloody riddance' - Mo Kargas

I know a whole lotta conservatives that will still bypass Google to get the content - Jesse Stay

Not to mention MySpace users - however, will MySpace users revolt now that their pages can't be indexed (if this goes through)? - Jesse Stay

*bookmark* - Micah Wittman

Also makes me wonder what News Corp is doing with MySpace now - what do they have up their sleeves? - Jesse Stay

Imagine if they too set up a deal with Twitter... - Jesse Stay

to search content, that is - Jesse Stay

Good, it would save me the trouble of having to look to see if something comes from Murdoch's entities. I doubt this will actually happen, though. - Rob Haas

Sorry but most people won't even realize that News Corp content is missing. People will search and they'll find other sites. Sorry, the unibrow of the web wins. - AJ Kohn

So if I link to a News Corp article via Twitter... will that tweet not be searchable? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Johnny, they can block Google spider from news corp sites but twitter will still be indexed as usual. - Amit Morson

Two Words... DON'T CARE - CW™

Would be a good move if News Corp carried ALL the news (sorry for allcaps). But there are plenty of others wanting for Google love. - Mike Reynolds

When Murdoch and his kind get together to set a price, the Government will step in to stop what is obvious price fixing. His threat is hollow, they won't set a price. - Wallace

Rupert must have been listening to Twist #24. Calacanis suggested he do this. http://thisweekinstartups.com/2009... (somewhere near the end of the episode). - Ken Morley

Calacanis suggested he do this???? It figures.... - Roberto Bonini

He was saying the top ten news oranizations should get together and make an offer to Bing... but that Rupert was likely the only one with the balls to do it; and that Google set a precedent by paying Twitter to index their content. :o) - Ken Morley

Update: Calacanis just posted this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Ken Morley

Genius! epic win for sure! - Jason Calacanis

It's curious that he would say search engine referral visitors aren't desired by advertisers. - Rob Sterling

Only way to make money from your content is to control it from the beginning. News Corp gave it away in several ways on the internet, including allowing Google search to go through their websites. Now that it has happened, if they choose to close off key avenues of information to go out to the users that are now used to getting their information a certain way, will backfire beyond belief. No one will pay for something once they got it for free for a long time, unless 1. you provide better and more for the fee and that has to be some really dandy service to do that. Only people that have come up with that are companies that provide a software like Evernote that offers above and beyond their free version, but they still allow the free for those that don't want to pay. Murdoch, your out of touch with reality as is your whole company. Best retire and let someone else drive the company into the ground. Then you can say you were always sucessful. - CW™

One word, "Antitrust." Or is that two words? The bulk Twitter feed apparently was not available to the public or it would have already been searched by Google. If content is available to the public now for free, I don't know how you are going to exclude some member of the public (Google) from accessing that content without creating a legal problem. - Jimmy Walker

I love moves that make old media harder to get to, driving those bastards farther behind their walls, marginalizing their impact even further. It makes just that much more space to allow the future to get her sooner. - Matthew DeVries

I guess new media won't kill old media after all. Old media will simply commit suicide. - Victor Ganata

And Jason just sent around an email newsletter explaining. I'd post it but its Copyrighted. - Roberto Bonini

What, this? http://calacanis.com/2009... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Why is he "talking about it"? Couldn't a quick change to the robots.txt file (which Google and legitimate search robots obey) exclude Google? - Brian Sullivan

Jason get rich by flux, it doesn't matter to him who wins, as long as there is change, upheaval and instability. Flat markets are Satan that he must fight. It does not surprise me that he advocates points of view that represent a sea change in the industry. It matters not to him whether new media or old media wins, just that there is a decade of fighting. - Matthew DeVries

For sure they want to be' payd as Twitter, the move to exit from the index is a suicide about advertising, by now it guarantee 100000 imp x day (It's in the answer of google to Murdock). - CantorJF from iPhone