Microsoft pays Newscorp to hide from Google

Rupert Murdoch has been talking with Microsoft about removing his newspapers’ stories from Google, and giving the rights to index them to Microsoft’s Bing. Mr. Murdoch appears to be willing to sacrifice a lot of traffic to the websites of papers such as the Wall Street Journal in return for a payment from Microsoft. In effect, he would be swapping his revenue stream from online advertising with a payment from Microsoft for drawing visitors to Bing. This could be a pivotal moment in internet economics.

More on the story here: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-offers-to-pay-news-corp-to-de-list-itself-from-google-2009-11