Interestingly, News Corp seems to be not the only online content publisher that was approached by Microsoft, says this report. Large news publishers were reportedly being courted by Microsoft to de-list their news content from Google’s index.

Another interesting aspect of this issue is of course the fact that Mr. Murdoch who started the attack against Google happens to be co-owner of Microsoft Bing. Now, you see the picture?

And what does Google has to say about this? Matt Brittin, Google’s UK director mentioned was quoted during the Society of Editors Conference – “Economically it’s not a big part of how we generate revenue.”

I guess that pretty much sums up Google’s stand.

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