Murdoch’s wink

Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 25-11-2009

Could the status quo of the commercial internet be shaken as a result of an old man’s misinterpretation of a question? Maybe so. Earlier this month, Rupert Murdoch sat down for an interview with Sky News Australia (a company that Murdoch’s News Corporation partially owns). A little way into the interview, the following exchange took place: Interviewer: The other argument from Google is that you could choose not to be on their search engine … so that when someone does do a search, your web sites don’t come up. Why haven’t you done that? Murdoch: Well, I think we will….