Hello.... An excellent read about this topic BY: Rich Ord http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2...eal-really-just-about-the-wall-street-journal We be interesting to see what happens in the near future... Imagine if every News outlet stuck together and forced Google to pay for the current News... thx M1
MS must be paying them *a lot* to be unindexed from Google, as thats probably where most of their visitors come from.
Well even if microsoft paying big amount, i don't think that they will de-index from google because it is the origin of traffic and so where will they have visitors then?
i would agree for such a thing.. only if the magnitude they offer seems good in comparison with my prospective earnings from google!
The financial times is a rare product though. Its one of those things that people will make the effort to search for. And if they know they won't be able to see the stories on google, then they will search for the stories on Bing. Barely any websites in the world would have that sort of clout behind them. There is no doubt that the Financial Times UV's would drop for a while, but they would be compensated for that by Microsoft. But it would mean that basically EVERY person who used the financial times website will have converted to BING. Would be a major coup. Oh...and NOTHING dirty about it. Google would be paid to do it...they don't have to accept the money.
That won't work, big companies would not want to take risk with just a new starter search engine for google. They know they became big company due to google itself. So why would they ever take that chance?
Thats not good news at all because if one compared the results from google and bing, google is indeed better and if Microsoft wants to give competition to google it should not adopt unfair means to do so.
Google too famous to fall down. A think that nothing will take down its crown for at least 15 years, cause even a kid nowday knows about Google... Microsoft has a lot work to take even a small step to what Google is today...
It would make no sense to do that. It would make more sense to plough the same money into the search engine. No offence to who wrote it but i dont even believe it, theres a massive amount of articles that get written that have no truth to them. Question for each person that has replied here, if you believe thats true, why do you believe it? Even if the company have said it, its just the whole power of suggestion thing going on there. Pretending they can challenge a so called rival. I think that you will find that microsoft and yahoo and google too are all in on these suggestions that this or that will happen. They will all merge into one sometime in the future, these companies are not out to try and beat each other, it all makes everyone fall into line a helluva lot easier if you believe that one will do something better that will beat google.
too funny.. this is one war MS cannot win with money. BUT if they offer to more than the revenue brought in by natural google searches then it may work.
I would rather invest that money in search engine they are making, then to persuade people to leave Google....
I guess its too late to do that, it could be a good move as they are offering money for it but commercially i would say it would not be viable as Google has already been an established player and i doubt it would get mediocre.
There is nothing dirty about it. No worse than folks trying to impose their will and judgement on what companies should or should not do. A company is under no obligation to index with anybody, and owes Google nothing. A company basically just owes performing a good service when paid for it. So on the the internet, seems that anything is fair play as long as laws are not broken and companies don't steal money. Google trying to make more money or dominate the market more could just as easily be percieved by some folks as foul play.