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This Can Serve Only To Increase Reliability of Search Engines 0

Rupert Murdoch has said he will try to block Google from using news content from his companies.

The billionaire told Sky News Australia he will explore ways to remove stories from Google’s search indexes, including Google News.

I love the “explore ways to remove stories from Google’s search indexes” wording. Some exploration to remove old links may be necessary, but, at any time, search engines can be blocked by inserting the following into the header of the webpage (I inserted the period after the first < so the code would be visible):

<.META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

This is news as old as search engines.

What he really wants is to go from billionaire to gazillionaire.

In the meantime, to the extent that, at least in the USA, Fox News doesn’t show up in searches, public ignorance will decrease.

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